Italian

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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 9781599103303Author Intronati of SienaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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 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 9781599541587Author Luigi Lo CascioFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

From the moment of her spectacular death on the scaffold, the story of Mary Queen of Scots became nothing short of a sensation across Europe. She was executed on 8 February 1587, and her death was the climax of a captivity that lasted over eighteen years...

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 9781946774774Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 281g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806535Author TerenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508549536Author David Slattery-ChristyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is a metatheatrical drama by Luigi Pirandello. Viewed as an important work of absurdist literature, the play was a critical failure when it was first staged in Rome. Revised by its author and bolstered by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533345486Author Professor Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

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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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511926461Author Sonja BrumfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645934007Author Walter HesFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Walter HesPublisher Walter HesWeight(grams) 109g

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) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457391Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994292391Author Stefan VucakFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Stefan VucakPublisher Stefan VucakWeight(grams) 127g

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New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g

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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...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841505558Author Daniela CavallaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books