![]() She has delved into archives and libraries in Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States, and Russia and retrieved documents, reviews, scholarly articles, and ephemeral printed matter tied to theater productions. Lorch certainly delivers a study that fulfills these expectations. The first goal of her book, as stated in the preface to the series Plays in Production, is to give students, practitioners, and theatergoers a comprehensive yet detailed view of the chosen play, providing readers with historical context, reception, and analysis of successful productions. Lorch has written an extensive examination of Six Characters in Search of an Author from its 1921 debut to its most recent and influential productions the last one she examines is dated 2001. ![]() With Jennifer Lorch's well-documented volume on the playwright's most famous masterpiece, Pirandello gets deserved, long-awaited attention from Cambridge University Press (its series Plays in Production had begun in 1995 with Ibsen's A Doll's House). ![]()
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