Right You Are, If You Think You Are | Six Characters; Right You Are . . .and Henry IV,[with introduction]
The following essay contains the critic's comments regarding the attitudes seen in the play: ‘‘In fact, one is suggested here, which I attempted to realize scenically: analogous to the prying attitude
of the provincial society gathered in a typical drawing-room, and facing a group of shy and secret creatures who refuse the principle of ‘‘sociability.’’
[Introduction] Ever since 1945, many of Orazio Costa’s productions have stood out as landmarks in the development of the Italian theatre.
It is hardly surprising, therefore, that he has staged a good many of Pirandello’s plays and even staged some of them several times over. A fascinating experience for such a recognized ‘‘perfectionist’’!
One of Orazio Costa’s most characteristic features is the combination of extreme rigour in the analysis of the text—the sure sign of the philologist— with a constant, but never completely ful- filled aspiration...
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