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Right You Are If You Think You Are (Dover Thrift Editions)
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About Right You Are If You Think You Are
Product Description This famous play, an expressionistic parable by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, explores such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion and the instability of the human personality. It is presented here in an excellent new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum. Review Play in three acts by Luigi Pirandello, produced in Italian in 1917 as Cosi e (se vi pare) and published the following year. The title is sometimes translated as Right You Are (If You Think So), among other variations. This work, like most of Pirandello's plays, contrasts art and life, demonstrating that truth is subjective and relative. No one has ever seen Signor Ponza's wife and her mother, Signora Frola, together. Councillor Agazzi, Ponza's curious employer, pries into Ponza's private life. Ponza claims that his wife is really his second wife, the first having died in an earthquake that destroyed all verifying documents. Too, his wife only pretends to be Signora Frola's daughter to humor Signora Frola, who, he claims, is insane. Thoroughly bewildered, Agazzi demands to meet Ponza's wife, who arrives, heavily veiled, proclaiming herself as both the daughter of Signora Frola and the second wife of Ponza. The "truth" of the matter remains a mystery. -- About the Author Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was a prolific author of modernist plays, fiction, and poetry. In 1934 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art."
