Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

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Six Characters in Search of an Author created Luigi Pirandello's international reputation in the 1920s and is still the play by which he is most widely identified.

With originality that was startling to his contemporaries, Pirandello introduced a striking and compelling dramatic situation that initially baffled but eventually dazzled audiences and critics alike. In what begins as a realistic play he introduces six figures who make the extraordinary claim that they are the...

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

6,273 words, approx. 21 pages

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello Born in Sicily in 1867, Luigi Pirandello was the son of a prosperous sulfur merchant. The successful merchant initially sent his son to stu... Read more

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Luigi Pirandello

1,726 words, approx. 6 pages

The works of the Italian playwright, novelist, and critic Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) generally portray Italian middle-class society. Combining relativistic thinking with a specific Pirandellian bran... Read more

Luigi Pirandello

9,848 words, approx. 33 pages

Although his fame rests mainly on revolutionary plays such as Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921; translated as Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1922), Enrico IV (1922; translated as Henry ... Read more