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Critical Essay by Susan Bassnett
SOURCE: "Henry IV—The Tragic Humorist," in A Companion to Pirandello Studies, edited by John Louis DiGaetani, Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 231-43.
He appealed not because he flouted tradition but because his art mirrored, and put to discussion, the problems of his age. It is here that we have to see his importance; all other aspects of his work are secondary.
—Oscar Budel, in hisPirandello,1969.
Luigi Pirandello is generally considered one of the great seminal dramatists of the twentieth century, ranked along-side Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, and Brecht. Plays like Six
Rex Harrison in the title role of Henry IV, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1974. (read more)
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