{"product_id":"six-plays-luigi-pirandello-9780714548494","title":"Six Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (If You Think You Are), the Jar, the Patent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etheater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author--an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play--and Henry IV--a tragicomic tale of a man who falls from a horse and believes himself to be the eponymous Holy Roman Emperor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theater inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luigi Pirandello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0714548499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780714548494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calder Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Luigi Pirandello","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096692596991,"sku":"9780714548494","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/six-plays-luigi-pirandello-9780714548494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}