Pirandello Libri

A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV

This book offers an innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pirandello's Enrico IV, structured in four chapters that explore the intertextual relationship between these two masterpieces. Beginning with an introduction that lays the groundwork, the text moves to a section titled "Preliminary Considerations," which defines the study’s focus and establishes the critical methodology. The core of the book, the central chapter entitled Comparative Study, delves deeply into the shared and contrasting elements between the two tragedies, presenting an original and cumulative interpretation that connects key concepts like original sin, farce, simulacrum, and simulation. The theoretical approach, carefully developed and organized into thematic blocks, unfolds with analytical rigor to offer a Shakespearean reading of Enrico IV. This study is an essential reference for those seeking to understand the complex interrelations between these two great texts and their relevance in contemporary literature and criticism.

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Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks

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.