Details

Subject(s)

• Pirandello, Luigi 1867-1936—Translations into English [Browse]

Translator

• Mortimer, Anthony Robert [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Drama [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Contains

• Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. English. [Browse]
• Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Enrico IV. English. [Browse]
• Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Giganti della montagna. English. [Browse]

Summary note

Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on the rehearsals of a provincial theatre company in an attempt to play out their family drama. In the brilliant Henry IV, a young man believes himself to be the Holy Roman Emperor; attempts to cure him of his delusion have disastrous consequences.The Mountain Giants is Pirandello's last, unfinished masterpiece, in which he moves towards the mythical, and make-believe and real life once more become entangled. The play reflects its author's growing anxiety about the function of art under a fascist regime. This new edition includes Pirandello's important Preface to Six Characters, an essential critical document for understanding the play that made him famous. Anthony Mortimer's lively and performable translations remain scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals. Publisher's website.

Notes

Translated from the Italian.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Six characters in search of an author
• Henry IV
• The mountain giants.

ISBN

• 9780199641192 (pbk.)
• 0199641196 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013943740

OCLC

869791755

RCP

H - S

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