Naked Masks
Five Plays
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 1, 1957
This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in modern plays about illusion and reality.
- Themes
- Illusion versus reality, Individual isolation, Self and society
- Genres
- Italian Plays
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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.
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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
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in modern plays about illusion and reality.
- For readers drawn to drama about individual isolation from society and self.
Where it sits
| Italian Plays | 93% |
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Publisher categories
- Italian Plays
- Italian Literary Collections
- Italian Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- September 1, 1957
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Illusion versus reality · Individual isolation · Self and society
- Reading lane
- Italian Plays