{"product_id":"three-plays","title":"Three Plays","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThree Plays\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLuigi Pirandello\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780199641192\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOxford University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on the rehearsals of a provincial theatre company in an attempt to play out their family drama. In the brilliant\u003cem\u003e Henry IV\u003c\/em\u003e, a young man believes himself to be the Holy Roman Emperor; attempts to cure him of his delusion have disastrous consequences.\u003cem\u003eThe Mountain Giants\u003c\/em\u003e is Pirandello's last, unfinished masterpiece, in which he moves towards the mythical, and make-believe and real life once more become entangled. The play reflects its author's growing anxiety about the function of art under a fascist regime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition includes Pirandello's important Preface to \u003cem\u003eSix Characters\u003c\/em\u003e, an essential critical document for understanding the play that made him famous. Anthony Mortimer's lively and performable translations remain scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Three Plays | Luigi Pirandello | Paperback | 9780199641192 | New | Drama 1716041","offer_id":48162369470616,"sku":"1716041","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51YZ23R9YBL.jpg?v=1771866701","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/three-plays","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}