Naked Masks
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780525484998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist.
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780525484998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist.
Author: Umberto Mariani
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-11-25
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1442693142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronted with the difficulty associated with such a radical aesthetic experience. In Living Masks, Umberto Mariani presents a clear and comprehensive introduction of Pirandello's major plays for general readers, students, and scholars new to Pirandello. Functioning as a guide to understanding the fundamental themes of Pirandello's plays, the author also examines the critical, aesthetic, and technical problems associated with these plays. He provides extensive reflection on some of the failings of early and contemporary criticism on Pirandello's works and offers many corrections of interpretative direction that will be significant and helpful to directors and performers. In particular, Mariani presents a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of Pirandello's works as a challenge to the tendency to adapt, and modify them, which drastically deprive the works of their original power and beauty. A concise and accessible introduction to a twentieth-century literary master, Living Masks will be of interest to dramatists, literary scholars, and students and scholars of Italian studies.
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780810107229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New York newspaper column from 1924 proclaimed: "Everybody's caught in the mazes of Pirandellism. . . . He is the great convention-smasher, and he just naturally leaves you face to face with the eternal query, What is truth?" "Everybody" is still caught in the mazes of Pirandellism. But since the 1940s Eric Bentley has threaded his way through those mazes. The Pirandello Commentaries is the result.
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1442642114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works.
Author: Ekbert Faas
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780773506053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton.