Six Characters in Search of an Author - Couverture souple

Pirandello, Luigi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854590898 ISBN 13 : 9781854590893

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2003

Synopsis

Number fifty nine in NHB's Drama Classics Series, providing the world's great drama at a great price.

The introduction to this edition of Six Characters In Search Of An Author includes a short biography of Luigi Pirandello and chronology of his work; a guide to what happens in the play; a short history of the play in performance and its context; and a brief guide to characterisation, language and themes.

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

Pirandello's classic of twentieth century theatre is introduced and presented here in a brilliant new translation by Stephen Mulrine.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd.

Stephen Mulrine was a Senior Lecturer, Historical & Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art; an Extra Mural Tutor, Creative Writing, Glasgow University; and he is a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. Following a prolific second career writing original plays for radio and television, Stephen began translating plays, mainly from Russian, in the late 1980s. Published and produced work ranges from the great 19th Century classics Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, etc to contemporary drama by Gelman and Petrushevskaya. Now retired from academic life, Stephen's translations, published mainly by Nick Hern Books include versions of Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg, Beaumarchais and others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854590898
• ISBN 13: 9781854590893
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible