Right You Are (If You Think So) (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: A small Italian town, the capital of a province
- Principal Characters: Lamberto Laudisi, Ponza, Signora Frola, Signora Ponza, Commendatore Agazzi, Amalia, Dina, The Prefect, Centuri
- 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
The Story:
There was much talk in the small capital of an Italian province about the peculiar family arrangements of old Signora Frola and her daughter, the wife of Ponza, a newly appointed secretary to Commendatore Agazzi, the provincial councillor. Why was Signora Frola living by herself in a fine apartment next door to the Agazzis and not with her daughter and her son-in-law? Why were Ponza and his wife living in fifth-floor tenement rooms on the edge of town? Why did Ponza visit the old lady every evening and sometimes during the day, but always by himself? Why did Signora...
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