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Author Bini, Daniela, 1945-

Title Pirandello and his muse : the plays for Marta Abba / Daniela Bini
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations
Series Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents (Gainesville, Fla.)
Contents Foreword / S.E. Gontarski -- Introduction: The Burden of Tradition -- 1. Woman, the Platonic Ideal: Tuda and "Marta" -- Before Marta Abba, the Divine Eleonora Duse: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray and As Before, Better than Before. -- The Virgin Marta: Diana and Tuda and The Wives' Friend. -- Diana and Tuda: The Play. -- The Wives' Friend: The History. -- The Wives' Friend: The Play -- 2. Woman, the Earth Mother: La Spera and Sara. -- The New Colony: The History. -- The New Colony: The Play. -- Lazarus: The History. -- Lazarus: The Play -- 3. Woman's Refusal of Roles: L'Ignota. -- Come tu mi vuoi: The Story. -- As You Desire Me: The Play -- 4. Woman as Creator. -- Letters From Berlin and Paris: An Effort at Sublimation. -- Artistic Creation/Procreation: The Mountain Giants
Summary This study examines the later plays of Luigi Pirandello - those he wrote for his muse, actress Marta Abba - in light of the recent publication of their correspondence. It traces the Nobel Prize winner's entire creative process, revealing how his perception of women shaped his philosophy of art and life, and highlights the structurally necessary shift from the male protagonist of the early and more famous plays and novels to the female protagonist of the later plays
With sensitive commentary on the letters, Daniela Bini reads the plays the old maestro wrote for the young actress as the sublimation of an erotic impulse he denied throughout his life. From Diana and Tuda to The Mountain Giants, Bini maintains, Pirandello makes love to Marta in the only way he could, the mystical union of the creator and his muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index
Notes English
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Subject Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 -- Relations with women
Abba, Marta
SUBJECT Abba, Marta fast
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 fast
Subject Women in literature.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
Relations with women
Women in literature
Toneelstukken.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Italian Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97033089
ISBN 0813018439
9780813018430