Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre

First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers he is thought of most frequently as a playwright the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular and his contribution to theatre both in theory and in practice has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.