Naked Masks: Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello - Softcover

Luigi Pirandello

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052548499X ISBN 13: 9780525484998

Publisher: Plume, 1957

Synopsis

Paperback, 386 pages

About this title

About the Author:

Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867. He studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he earned his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author was performed. Henry IV followed the next year and confirmed his position as a playwright. In the following years Pirandello travelled abroad extensively. He embarked on a career as a producer and in 1925 founded his Art Theatre in Rome. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.

Eric Bentley is a drama critic and translator. He received his BA at Oxford University and PhD at Yale University. In 2006, he received an Obie award for lifetime achievement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 052548499X
• ISBN 13: 9780525484998
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Eric Bentley