This edition includes a full commentary, plot summary, chronology of his life and work, bibliography and questions for studyPirandello ranks with Brecht and Beckett as one of the foremostdramatic innovators of this century. Six Characters is studied atSchool and University levelAbsolutely Perhaps was revived by Franco Zefirelli as a West End hit in 2003The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934
Pirandello, born in Sicily in 1867, was a well-known novelist andcritic before he achieved international recognition as a playwright.His plays include The Rules of the Game, Six Characters, Henry IV and The Man with the Flower in his Mouth. He was awarded a Nobel Prize forLiterature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.
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