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This is the play that established Pirandello's international reputation as a playwright. Already well-known m Italy as a prose writer, critic, and poet, he had begun to write for the theatre shortly before World War I increasing his output rapidly after 1918. Six Characters caused a scandal when it first appeared, and the first night ended with a riot, due to the taboo subject-matter of the play: incestuous desire.
Six Characters is the first of three plays known as the "theatre-in-the-theatre" biology,...
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