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'We know all too well that we're up to our necks in the shit, and it is for this very reason that we walk with our heads held high!' An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are...

Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103303Author Intronati of SienaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

What were the origins of commedia dell'arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during the Enlightenment? What is its legacy today? These are...

A Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company "Two wages. Two men's meals. Am I mad? Not half." Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook...

This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new perspectives on the vibrant engagements between Shakespeare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104652Author Francesco D'AmbraFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774750Author Luigi PirandelloFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 431g

Loyalty can save a soul - or destroy one.Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambitions...

Scala's The Fake Husband offers readers and performers an accessible English script which captures the comic brilliance of the commedia dell'arte. Expanded from an earlier scenario, Il marito (The Husband), the play presents characters originally created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774743Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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This translation makes The Buffoons, the first female-authored comedy printed in Italy, available to Anglophone readers for the first time. Published in 1641, this burlesque play depicts the mismatched sexual desires of a prince and princess. Although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961119Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774774Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010826Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani's Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society's double-standards and it champions women's dramatic agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513296869Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

You have to laugh. It is a tragedy in three movements: The Thighs, The Dick, The Fame and a counter-movement: Italy.An actress creates a physical and vocal mask challenging a provocative, scandalous and beastly text. Words might be sung, howled and...

It's nice to have a secret.Gio, who has never felt accepted by anyone - not by parents, teachers or peers - decides to disappear and hide out in a secluded cave. When his popular classmate Mirko discovers him, Gio enlists him as an accomplice, convincing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457094Author Eric BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881459920Author Carlo GozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959984283Author Enzo LamartoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint FomitePublisher FomiteWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102795Author Massimo BontempelliFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119214648Author Henrik IbsenFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Adhyaya Books House LlpPublisher Adhyaya Books House LlpWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782382745540Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102801Author Massimo BontempelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542058Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104645Author Francesco D'AmbraFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103297Author Intronati of SienaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 481g

I've got goosebumps. One of us. It's horrendous. July 2011. A far-right terrorist has just massacred sixty-nine people, most of them students attending a Norwegian Labour Party Youth’s summer camp on the island of Utoya. Gunnar and Malin have sent their...

Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini,...

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True to Goldoni's mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which only unravel in the very final lines with a surprise ending. Two friends are in love with the same young woman. Neither wants to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986488424Author John a CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Truth and Beauty Media, LLCPublisher Truth and Beauty Media, LLCWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806559Author George ColmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

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