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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Contributor(s): Pirandello, Luigi (Author), Farrell, Joseph (Editor), Linstrum, John (Translator)
ISBN: 0413772683     ISBN-13: 9780413772688
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $14.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2009
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Annotation: Student edition of Pirandello's classic drama in which the characters of a play that has not been written act out the key events of their lives in order to escape their mysterious situation. Includes notes, background to the play and discussion of various interpretations.

Luigi Pirandello achieved acclaim for plays such as "Absolutely Perhaps" and "Six Characters in Search of an Author," winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934. He died in Rome in 1936.
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama
Dewey: 852.912
Series: Methuen Student Editions
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.1" W x 7.81" (0.35 lbs) 90 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

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. Intrigued by their situation, the director invites them
to act out the key events of their lives ...

Pirandello's best-known play and one
of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six
Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we come
from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?

Contributor Bio(s): Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre.