Luigi Pirandello: Three Major Plays ; Translated by Carl R. Mueller

ISBN-10: 1575252317
ISBN-13: 9781575252315
Series: Luigi Pirandello
Language: English
Published: 2000
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
Author: Luigi Pirandello

Description

"The three plays in this volume are considered his masterpieces and they are seen constantly on the stages of the world. 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' deals with a family of six who show up at a theater rehearsal asking that someone validate them by utilizing their lives in a play. 'Right You Are (If You Think So)' is about the morbid curiosity of a town's population to discover the "truth" about the Ponza family, a task they find to be frustratingly impossible. 'Henry IV' concerns the nature of reality and delusion in the mind of a man who may be a king, but then again, maybe not. Pirandello is as current and topical today as he was when he wrote, and almost every theater innovation in play-writing that has come after him owes its existence to his vision of the impossibility of knowing anything for certain."-- from publisher's description.