Right You Are (If You Think So) (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Drama, Parable
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Mental illness, Truthfulness and falsehood, Italy or Italians, Gossip, Secretaries
- Locales: Italy
Places Discussed
Agazzi’s drawing room (ah-GATZ-ee). Comfortable apartment of an unnamed central Italian town’s major official, the middle-class bureaucrat Commendatore Agazzi, that is the play’s main setting. Agazzi’s family and townspeople complain that his clerk Signor Ponza cruelly does not allow his wife and his mother-in-law, Signora Frola, to see each other. Agazzi opens his home to the meddling townspeople to question the clerk and mother-in-law separately, each of whom gives conflicting versions of the truth about the wife’s identity. Is she Ponza’s first...
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