This is an introduction to the life and literary contributions of a Nobel Prize winner and one of Italy's most distinguished writers, Luigi Pirandello. It evaluates the significance of his influence on 20th century literature.

Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play.

The dramatic innovations in this play are legendary. Direct address, improvisations and in and out of character speeches are but a few of the techniques Pirandello originated.

Famous expressionistic parable explores relativity of truth, vanity and necessity of illusion, instability of human personality, other themes. New English translation.

Now part of the canon of Italian plays, Morte accidentale di un anarchico, in its original form, was a subversive piece of political theatre.