TY - BOOK AU - Mariani,Alice Gladstone AU - Mariani,Umberto TI - Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks: New Translations of Six Major Plays SN - 9781442642119 AV - PQ4835.I7A2 2011 U1 - 852.912 PY - 2016///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - DISCOUNT-B KW - DRAMA / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; LiolĂ  --; Right You Are, If You Think You Are --; Six Characters in Search of an Author --; Henry IV --; Each in His Own Way --; The Mountain Giants --; Selected Bibliography; restricted access N2 - Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello is known worldwide for his innovative, complex plays. In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works - Liola, It Is So If You Think So, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Each in His Own Way, and The Mountain Giants.Mariani and Mariani's translations of these texts are both vibrant and faithful to the originals, using contemporary expressions and unambiguous language to facilitate readability and comprehension. This edition also offers a critical introduction to each play's most significant characters and structures, highlighting themes and poetics as they correspond to Pirandello's entire body of work. Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks will appeal to those already familiar with his plays and those looking to discover one of the twentieth century's great dramatists UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690318 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442690318 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442690318/original ER -