Three Plays
By (author): "John Linstrum, Julian Mitchell, Robert Rietty, Luigi Pirandello"
Publish Date:
June 1969
ISBN0413575608
ISBN139780413575609
AsinThree Plays
Original titleThree Plays by Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV and Right You Are
Piandello ranks with Brecht and Beckett as one of the foremost dramatic innovators of this century. The three plays in this volume, considered his masterpieces, are products of his theatrical obsession with the colliding of illusion and reality. Here is the absurdity of human life and its conventions in The Rules of the Game (1918); the uncertain boundary between sanity and insanity in Henry IV (1922); and in Six Characters (1921), his best known play, there is a fascinating variation on the theme of Life versus Art.Led by an introduction to Pirandello's life and work by John Linstrum, all three plays appear in recent, eminently stageable translations.