Three essential plays by one of Europe's foremost 20th century dramatists The Rules of the Game (1918) is based closely on the author's own unhappy marriage centred around Leone Gala and his wife who are separated, their only contract, a formal visiting procedure; Henry 1V, shows the effect of madne[...]
Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre. This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search [...]
Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less f[...]
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. In[...]
Presents the classic play about literature and reality, first produced in 1921, in which six characters involved in their own family drama come to life at a theater in the midst of a rehearsal, insisting that the theatrical company complete their story[...]
The Drama Classics series is gaining ground each year and is actively sought after by many schools and teachers.[...]
Denna mångbottnade roman från 1915 utspelas i en levande och autentisk filmmiljö under filmkonstens barndom och skildrar med psykologisk insikt ett fortfarande lika aktuellt mänskligt drama. Här samlas Pirandellos typiska teman såsom det rollspel samhället tvingar människorna in i och indivi[...]
Nobel-kirjailijan novelleja elämän sattumanvaraisuudesta. Liken vuonna 2007 julkaisema kokoelma Sitruunoita Sisiliasta ja muita novelleja niitti kiitosta. Nyt arvostetun Nobel-kirjailijan laajasta novellituotannosta on suomennettu lisää helmiä. Pirandellon novellit tuntuvat hämmästyttävän t[...]
Ett urval korta noveller skrivna av den berömde nobelpristagaren Luigi Pirandello. Vi möter alla sorts människor, beskrivna med mycket humor.
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