Pirandello

[ pir-uhn-del-oh; Italian pee-rahn-del-law ]

noun

1. Lu·i·gi [loo-, ee, -jee], 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1934.

Pirandello

/ piranˈdɛllo /

noun

1. PirandelloLuigi18671936MItalianWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1867–1936, Italian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. His plays include Right you are ( If you think so ) (1917), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Henry IV (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1934

Example Sentences

Let us not miss the latter, especially, in the complex mood of all Pirandello's theatre.

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All of Pirandello's plays are built for acting, and only incidentally for reading.

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It is one of the plays of Pirandello that has had considerable success on the stage.

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They must be taken as a whole—if one would look for a full statement of Pirandello's "thought."

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Enough for the lover of the theatre is the fact that Pirandello derives the most interesting dramatic possibilities from it.

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