Six Characters in Search of an Author: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

by Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Mulrine (Translator)

Overview

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Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality, in which six characters, whose author has abandoned them mid-process, turn up at a rehearsal and demand to be played by the actors present in order to resolve their tragedy and become 'real'.

This edition of Six Characters in Search of an Author, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780011448
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	05/18/2015
Series:	NHB Drama Classi
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	307 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays include Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921).

Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.