First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers, he is thought of most frequently as a playwright, the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular, and his contribution to theatre, both in theory and in practice, has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director, the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company, the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.
By:
Susan Bassnett, Jennifer Lorch Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 3 Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g ISBN:9781138165182 ISBN 10: 1138165182 Pages: 236 Publication Date:18 January 2017 Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Susan Bassnett is Professor at the Graduate School of Comparative Literary Theory and Literary Translation at the University of Warwick. Jennifer Lorch is a Lecturer at the University of Warwick.