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    Naked Masks

    Five Plays

    Author Luigi Pirandello
    Edited by Eric Bentley
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Plume
    On sale Sep 01, 1957 | 416 Pages | 9780452010826
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    This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.
     
    Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself.
     
    The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author.
     
    Included Plays:
    Liolà
    It Is So! (If You Think So)
    Henry IV
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Each in His Own Way
    Introduction
    Liolà
    It Is So! (If You Think So)
    Henry IV
    Premise
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Each in His Own Way

    Appendix I. Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Appendix II. Biographical and Cultural
    Appendix III. Theatrical and Bibliographical

    Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867. He studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he earned his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author was performed. Henry IV followed the next year and confirmed his position as a playwright. In the following years Pirandello travelled abroad extensively. He embarked on a career as a producer and in 1925 founded his Art Theatre in Rome. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.

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    This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.
     
    Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself.
     
    The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author.
     
    Included Plays:
    Liolà
    It Is So! (If You Think So)
    Henry IV
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Each in His Own Way

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Liolà
    It Is So! (If You Think So)
    Henry IV
    Premise
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Each in His Own Way

    Appendix I. Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Appendix II. Biographical and Cultural
    Appendix III. Theatrical and Bibliographical

    Author

    Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867. He studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he earned his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author was performed. Henry IV followed the next year and confirmed his position as a playwright. In the following years Pirandello travelled abroad extensively. He embarked on a career as a producer and in 1925 founded his Art Theatre in Rome. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.

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