this just serves as a remembrance on my World Drama subject. I like him, he's great!

1. WORLD DRAMA
European Theaters
During War Years

2. Luigi Pirandello

3. LIFE
 Italian short-story playwright
 Writer
 Dramatist
 Novelist
 Famous innovator in Modern Drama

4. LIFE
 Luigi was born of rich, middle-class
parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on
28 June 1867.

5. LIFE
 His first published work, Mal
giocondo (1889), was a collection of
poems.

6. LIFE
 As a young man he studied at the
Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn,
where he gained his doctorate in 1891.

7. LIFE
 He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn
and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of
his native town (1891).

8. LIFE
 In 1894 he married Antoinetta Portulano

9. FAMILY

10. LIFE
 From 1897 to 1922 he was professor of
aesthetics and stylistics at theReal Istituto
di Magistere Femminile at Rome.

11. LIFE
 He embarked on a career as a producer
and in 1925 founded his Art Theatre in
Rome.

12. LIFE
 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1934.

13. LIFE
 He died in Rome on 10 December 1936.

14. QUOTES
 “I present myself to you in a form
suitable to the relationship I wish to
achieve with you.”
 “In bed my real love has always been
the sleep that rescued me by
allowing me to dream.”
 “Nature uses human imagination to
lift her work of creation to even
higher levels.”

15. ESSAY:
L'Umorismo [Humour]
 His characters attempt to fulfill their self-
seeking roles and are defeated by life
itself which, always changing, enables
them to see their perversity.
 There’s an irony which arises from the
contradictions inherent in life.

16. PLAYS & STYLES:
Maschere nude [Naked Masks] & Cosí é
(se vi pare) (1918) [Right You Are (If
You Think You Are)]
 The title is programmatic.
 Preoccupied with the problem of identity.
 The self exists to him only in relation to
others; it consists of changing facets that
hide an inscrutable abyss.

17. PLAYS & STYLES:
Vestire gli ignudi (1923) [To
Clothe the Naked]
 The protagonist tries to establish
her individuality by assuming
various identities.

18. PLAYS & STYLES:
La vita che ti diedi(1924)
[The Life I Gave You]
The conflict between illusion
and reality is central.
clings to illusion rather than to
reality.

19. PLAYS & STYLES:
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921)
[Six Characters in Search of An Author]
 The analysis and dissolution of a unified
self are carried to an extreme.
 the symbol of appearance versus reality,
becomes the setting of the play.
 presents the playwright's views about the
isolation of the individual from society and
from himself.

20. Six Characters in Search of an
Author related quote
 “When the characters are really
alive before their author, the
latter does nothing but follow
them in their action, in their
words, in the situations which
they suggest to him.”

21. Six Characters in Search of an
Author

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 By: Ms. Aira May Dizon picture