Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Pirandello, LuigiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-03-04
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Summary
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director invites them to act out the key events of their lives ...; Pirandello's best-known play and one of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century , Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?
Author Biography
Pirandello, born in Sicily in 1867, was a well-known novelist and critic before he achieved international recognition as a playwright. His plays include The Rules of the Game, Six Characters, Henry IV and The Man with the Flower in his Mouth. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.
Table of Contents
| Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936 | p. v |
| Plot | p. xiv |
| Commentary | |
| The evolution from realism | p. xxiii |
| The poetics of Pirandellism | p. xxxiii |
| Humour, cruelty and compassion | p. xlvii |
| Characters and characterisation | p. lvii |
| Writing and performance history | p. lxix |
| Further Reading | p. lxxxi |
| Translator's Note | p. lxxxiv |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | p. 1 |
| Notes | p. 77 |
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