Pirandello

[ pir-uhn-del-oh; Italian pee-rahn-del-law ]

noun
  1. Lu·i·gi [loo-ee-jee], /luˈi dʒi/, 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1934.

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How to use Pirandello in a sentence

  • Let us not miss the latter, especially, in the complex mood of all Pirandello's theatre.

    Three Plays | Luigi Pirandello
  • All of Pirandello's plays are built for acting, and only incidentally for reading.

    Three Plays | Luigi Pirandello
  • It is one of the plays of Pirandello that has had considerable success on the stage.

    Idling in Italy | Joseph Collins
  • They must be taken as a whole—if one would look for a full statement of Pirandello's "thought."

    Three Plays | Luigi Pirandello
  • Enough for the lover of the theatre is the fact that Pirandello derives the most interesting dramatic possibilities from it.

    Three Plays | Luigi Pirandello

British Dictionary definitions for Pirandello

Pirandello

/ (Italian piranˈdɛllo) /


noun
  1. Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1867–1936, Italian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. His plays include Right you are (If you think so) (1917), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Henry IV (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1934

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