Right You Are, If You Think You areWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) explored such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personality. In this famous play, an expressionistic parable set in a small Italian town in the early twentieth century, Pirandello skillfully dramatizes these issues. The observer Laudisi derides the townspeople for their insistence on knowing the secrets of Mrs. Frola and her married daughter: Why does Mrs. Frola live alone and not with her daughter? Why do the two never visit each other? The answers to these questions lie at the heart of this play and at the center of Pirandello's artistic vision. Presented in an excellent new English translation, this inexpensive edition will delight students and lovers of modern drama. |
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Aeschylus AMALIA Anton Chekhov back door believe bows and exits bravo bring Butler exits calm CINI Commissioner Centuri cook's shoes Councilman Agazzi course courtyard crazy curiosity daugh dear Ponza DINA door at stage doubt dumbfounded Eugene O'Neill Excellency FIVE The foregoing Forgive Frola enters FROLA quickly George Bernard Shaw gesture goes Good-bye GOVERNOR hand hear heard heaven's sake Henrik Ibsen Honor husband insane keep ladies and gentlemen Lamberto Laudisi LAUDISI laughing LAUDISI quickly Lina plays Listen living room look LUIGI PIRANDELLO MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind Miss Agazzi mistaken mother-in mother-in-law name is Giulia NENNI never old lady once Oscar Wilde phantom piano Pirandello Pointless Ponza bows poor woman proof rest assured seated second wife shouting SIRELLI smile son-in-law Sophocles speak stage left stand sure takes talk tell There's things told torture touch truth TWELFTH NIGHT Uncle understand upset William Shakespeare