The Drama of Luigi Pirandello

✍ Scribed by Domenico Vittorini; Luigi Pirandello

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: Italian
• Leaves: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers a survey and interpretation of all of Pirandello's plays, giving outlines of the plots and criticism, together with a biographical sketch of the Italian dramatist.

This volume offers a survey and interpretation of all of Pirandello's plays, giving outlines of the plots and criticism, together with a biographical sketch of the Italian dramatist.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contents
INTRODUCTION
I Pirandello in the Tradition of Italian Letters
II Pirandello, Man and Artist
III Pirandello's Philosophy of Life
PART ONE: IN THE WAKE OF NATURALISM
IV Introduction
V Humble Themes of Sicilian Life
VI Painful Mirth and Tragedy Make Their Entrance
VII A Humorist Looks at Virtue
PART TWO: THE DRAMA OF BEING AND SEEMING
VIII Introduction
IX The Blinding Effects of Truth
X Illusion and Heroism
XI The Tumult of Life and the Aloofness of Concepts
XII The Many Faceted Prism of Truth
XIII Changing Character of Human Opinions
XIV The Beauty of a Lie
XV Madness as the Only Refuge
XVI Dualism of Personality
XVII In the Realm of Mystery
PART THREE: SOCIAL PLAYS
XVIII Introduction
XIX The Strange Adventures of Lady Honesty
XX Where the Law Cannot Reach
XXI Impossibility of a Perfect Human Society
XXII Resurrection and Immortality
PART FOUR: THE DRAMA OF WOMANHOOD
XXIII Introduction
XXIV The Turmoil of the Irrational
XXV The Form and Substance of Matrimony
XXVI The Purifying Force of Motherhood
XXVII The Power of Passive Resistance
XXVIII The Loneliness of the Lofty
XXIX Where the Children Are, There Is the Home
XXX A Mystic Interpretation of Parenthood
XXXI Only Illusion Can Conquer Death
PART FIVE: ART AND LIFE
XXXII Introduction
XXXIII Art Does But Dwarf a Tragic Life
XXXIV A Play in the Making
XXXV Life Rebels Against the Fixity of Art
XXXVI Renunciation
XXXVII The Misery of Fame
Conclusion
Bibliography