Pirandello

[ pir-uhn-del-oh; Italian pee-rahn-del-law ]

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Lu·i·gi [loo-, ee, -jee], 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1934.

Pirandello

/ piranˈdɛllo /

PirandelloLuigi18671936MItalianWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1867–1936, Italian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. His plays include Right you are ( If you think so ) (1917), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Henry IV (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1934

Let us not miss the latter, especially, in the complex mood of all Pirandello's theatre.

All of Pirandello's plays are built for acting, and only incidentally for reading.

It is one of the plays of Pirandello that has had considerable success on the stage.

They must be taken as a whole—if one would look for a full statement of Pirandello's "thought."

Enough for the lover of the theatre is the fact that Pirandello derives the most interesting dramatic possibilities from it.

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