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Author: Susan Bassnett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134351216 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 265
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First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers, he is thought of most frequently as a playwright, the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular, and his contribution to theatre, both in theory and in practice, has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director, the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company, the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.
Author: Walter Starkie Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520376331 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 318
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Author: Susan Bassnett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134351216 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers, he is thought of most frequently as a playwright, the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular, and his contribution to theatre, both in theory and in practice, has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director, the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company, the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.
Author: Luigi Pirandello Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 70
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The play 'Henry IV(Enrico IV) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello written in 1921 and premiered to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on 24 February 1922. A study on madness with both comic and tragic elements, it is about a man who believes himself to be Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. An unnamed Italian aristocrat falls off his horse while playing the role of Henry IV during carnevale festivities, which take place annually before Lent. After he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. This then forces his family to engage in an elaborate charade for his sake, with comical results...
Author: Ann Caesar Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198151760 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 298
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Luigi Pirandello is best known in the English-speaking world for his radical challenge to traditional Western theatre with plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author. But theatre is just one manifestation of his experiments with language which led to a remarkable collection of novels,short stories, and essays as well as his work for a film industry then in its infancy. This study, which is based on the view that Pirandello's writings are most fruitfully discussed in a European context, takes as its starting-point the author's belief in the primacy of the literary character in acreative process which is necessarily conflictual.The book argues that all Pirandello's characters are engaged in a continual performance which transcends the genre distinction between narrative and dramatic forms. In this performance it is the spoken word in which the characters invest most heavily as they struggle to sustain an identity of theirown, tell their life-stories, and assert themselves before their most prominent antagonist, the author himself.
Author: Domenico Vittorini Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512821284 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 367
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Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of all his dramatic work and interpreting his accomplishments fron an artistic viewpoint. As a background for his criticism, the Domenico Vittorini shows first how Pirandello's compassionate pessimism and tragic mockery resulted from his own tortured existence and in what way his art is relates to Italian literary tradition and contemporary thought. Proceeding chronologically, Pirandello's growth is traced from the elementary naturalism of his early writing, through his more reflective plays, to the crowning achievements of later years in which dramatic situations are approached from a highly intellectualized point of view.
Author: Fiora A. Bassanese Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570030819 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 218
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This is an introduction to the life and literary contributions of a Nobel Prize winner and one of Italy's most distinguished writers, Luigi Pirandello. It evaluates the significance of his influence on 20th century literature.
Author: Luigi Pirandello Publisher: ISBN: 9781599102931 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 120
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"This volume presents an introduction to and new translations of two of Luigi Pirandello's plays, "Henry IV" ("Enrico IV") and a related one-act work, "The License" ("Il Patente"), both of them dealing with madness, the illusion of madness, its causes and its use. Includes select bibliography"--
Author: Susan Bassnett
Author: Walter Starkie
Author: Susan Bassnett
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Author: Ann Caesar
Author: Domenico Vittorini
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Author: Fiora A. Bassanese
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