Right You Are, If You Think You Are | Historical Context
Pirandello & World War I
World War I raged while Pirandello wrote his play, Right You Are, If You Think You Are. Pirandello later said that ‘‘It was war that revealed theatre to me. Mine is a theatre of war.’’ War between Germany and France had been considered inevitable since at least 1905, and finally broke out in 1914. What began in a nationalist frenzy soon stalemated in a 350-mile line of trenches where thousands of lives were sacrificed to gain or lost a single mile. Euphoria was replaced by nihilism as it became evident that a whole generation was...
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