![]() The audience is only allowed to put the pieces together in the final moments because everything they had heard up until then was subjective because the actors were in the world of the play too much to see the whole picture (Gainor et al. ![]() This play then explores what it means to stage a play and who is in charge of telling the story. His most famous play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, follows a set of characters in conflict over how to tell their story (Gainor et al. His unique sense of humor and his delivery of that humor through the raisonneur character helped him to create a world in which realism and naturalism were thrown out the window and metatheatricality was employed to fully explore Pirandello’s philosophies (Gainor et al. ![]() After his life began to unravel at the very beginning of the 20 th century Pirandello began to expand his writing to what he is now known for, his philosophical comedies and metatheatrical works (Gainor et al. This began with the dialectal theater of Sicily and an exploration of commedia dell’arte (Gainor et al. He got his beginnings in writing short stories and upon arrival back to Sicily after his schooling at Bonn he began to take an interest in theater. ![]() His plays were reactions to the plays of naturalism and realism that came before him. ![]()
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