About the Author

Luigi Pirandello is one of the most innovative and influential playwrights of the last century, best known for his comic masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author, and was the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. Marilena de Chiara is a professor of comparative literature and classic culture at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has published numerous articles on the theory of theater and 20th-century theater in international publications.