Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 1, 1996
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- Who it’s for
- These plays turn identity and truth into theatrical puzzles, with forms as inventive as their questions.
- Themes
- Human personality, The nature of truth, Experimental theatre
- Genres
- Italian Plays, Italian Literary Collections
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A volume of plays from the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, including his most popular and controversial work A Penguin Classic Pirandello is brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre. This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play.
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The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is (If You Think So), the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover “the truth” about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello’s masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality, each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Stage Unsettled
These plays turn identity and truth into theatrical puzzles, with forms as inventive as their questions.
Come here for
- Drama that pushes at the boundaries of theatrical form
- Questions about personality, truth, and what can be known
Expect
- Three plays with distinct, searching dramatic premises
- A translation from the Italian by Mark Musa
Where it sits
| Italian Plays | 92% |
|---|---|
| Italian Literary Collections | 42% |
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Publisher categories
- British & Irish Plays
- Drama Criticism
- Playwriting
- Authors
- Luigi Pirandello
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 1, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human personality · The nature of truth · Experimental theatre
- Reading lane
- British & Irish Plays