Abstract
PIRANDELLO IS FIRST RESPONDED TO in terms of his experimentalism, the pirandellismo which has made his name in the modem theater the counterpart of Joyce's modem fiction, or of Yeats's in modem poetry. We do not normally and easily associate him with Ibsen or Shaw, theatrical innovators also, if not so daring or so philosophical in their innovations as Pirandello. We study Ibsen and Shaw in terms of their social import, the meaning first of all of their content. Yet Pirandello's experimentalism gains its force only through his substance, the fabric of plot, theme, character; his manipulation of the conventional dramatic structure reinforces, is often identical with, his subject matter. How Pirandello says what he has to say is a good part of what he says. What Pirandello has to say is, finally, why he is worth considering at all. in other than a purely historical and technical way.
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