Table of Contents

Note on Translations and Sources
1: Real and Implied Authors
2: The Rise of the Character: Six Characters and the Drama of Creativity
3: Self and Other in Society: Gossip, Shame, and Scandal
4: Configurations of Identity: The Family's Undoing
5: Narrative Space and the Multiplying Self: The Case of Uno, nessuno e centomila
6: Pirandello's Philosophers
7: The Author as Director: Characters and Actors
8: Performing Women
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

`This book makes an important contribution to a recent trend in criticism of Luigi Pirandello .../ Pirandello, to be sure, wrote repeatedly, obsessively, in various combinations of comedy, tragedy and farce, about the volubility of life in comparison with the fixity of art.../ Among the book's many strengths is its careful linking of these and other aspects of Pirandello's work, .../ The problematic issue of his public support for the Fascist regime,
sidestepped by many critics, is directly confronted and intelligently discussed.'
David Forgacs/ TLS/ 11/12/98
`This volume represents a welcome addition to the corpus of secondary literature in English on the perennially popular Pirandello ... An immensely rich, wide-ranging and meticulously documented study, this volume is a must for all scholars and students of Pirandello.'
Maggie Gunsberg, Italian Studies, vol 54. 1999