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  3. Pirandello in Context
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  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik, Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781108339391
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108339391
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
Series:
Literature in Context
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Book description

For students of Luigi Pirandello's life and works, this volume provides a multi-faceted view spanning the many genres in which he wrote, from poetry and essays to fiction and drama. It gives a true sense of Pirandello's remarkable sensitivity to place – from his native Sicily to Germany and Latin America – and of how his perspective was shaped by a wide range of interlocutors with varying professional backgrounds, from contemporary philosophers to fellow playwrights like Bernard Shaw, directors like Max Reinhardt and the actress Marta Abba. Diverse contributors explore the sheer genre-bending originality of Pirandello's humor, metatheatre, and fantastic tales, and reveal how profound shifts in society, culture, and politics in his time – Freud, Futurism, Fascism – conditioned not just his thought but also his meteoric rise to fame. A final section is dedicated to Pirandello's legacy in literature and drama throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

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‘Any reader and lover of Pirandello will want to own Pirandello in Context. It’s packed with recent scholarship and research that’s very illuminating. An invaluable source book to enhance our understanding of Luigi and his Piradellianisms.’

Alan Price Source: LONDON GRIP magazine

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