Synopsis:
This is the first volume of a collected edition of the complete plays of Pirandello, one of the major playwrights of the early twentieth century, in revised or new translations, under the general editorship of Robert Rietty.
This volume contains three full-length plays and one-acter. Henry IV (1922) has always been one of the most performed and popular of the plays, both in Italy and in other countries: a study in the nature of reality and delusion, it has great dramatic impact and is intensely moving. The Man With the Flower (1923) is perhaps the best known of the shorter plays, poignant and, in its denouement, devastating. Right You Are - Cosi e (se vi pare) (1917) is a major play that has had many successful productions, especially in Britain, and has always worked well with audiences with its message of live and let live. Lazarus (1929), although less known, remains one of the his most haunting creations that has also had successful productions in English-speaking countries. |
