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This is the second volume of a collected edition of the plays of Luigi Pirandello, one of the major playwrights of the early 20th century. Six Characters in Search of an Author is Pirandello's best known work. The reality of the theater and the unreality of life cross over as the dramatist steps in and out of the framework of stage convention. In All for the Best the principle character discovers that his daughter is illegitimate and that he is the only one not to have known. Clothe the Naked is another study of the nature of reality and unreality in the loneliness of the principle character and the fictitious existence she creates for herself. Limes from Sicily is Pirandello's first produced play that movingly captures the nostalgia of Sicilians in exile.
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Robert P Ohlmacher
reviewed Luigi Pirandello : Collected Plays : Six Characters in Search of an Author, All for the Best, Clothe the Naked, Limes from Sicily, Vol. 2 on July 06, 2014
Luigi Pirandello : Collected Plays : Six Characters in Search of an Author, All for the Best, Clothe the Naked, Limes from Sicily, Vol. 2
Six Characters in Search of an Author **** - This is the play on which Pirandello' reputation stands. It is, though, different than his other works that I've read. The play-outside-a-play/meta-theatre is groundbreaking. (Though not unheard of - see Knight of the Burning Pestle circa. 1607.)
Personally, I liked the idea of the play, but not the execution. The characters' "play-outside-the-play" has too many elements of a sensational melodrama --it could have been more compelling and commented more on the play overall. Instead it was a sordid and highly improbable family melodrama. What's compelling is not the action or idea of the play, but the darkly lurid story. (I guess there was supposed to be the shock factor of the story.)
Yet this is still a powerful play and the discussion of character and reality and speech make it fascinating to read/watch.
Clothe the Naked *** - In this Ibsenesque play, the search for truth torments a young women and leads to her death. It's an interesting play with Pirandello's overflowing prose, but it lacks the surreal qualities of his better works. It is more explicit and sexually charged than the typical Ibsen play, but it otherwise shares many of the same qualities of Ibsen's social dramas.
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