ello was born into an upper-class family. "He was an Italian short-story writer and novelist, a secondary school teacher, and finally a playwright". In 1886 he began to work with his father in the sulphur mines of Porto Empedocle. A year later, he moved to Rome to expand and continue his education and studies. While in Rome, he had a conflict with his Latin professor and was forced to leave the University. In 1891 he received his doctorate and joined a group of writer-journalists and within the group met Luigi Capuana, who encouraged him to dedicate himself to narrative writing. In 1924, Pirandello became an important public figure opening his own Art Theatre in Rome . Pirandello supported fascism, and supported by Mussolini, his relationship to the dictator definitely kept the public talking. Due to his wife's illness, Parandello has been greatly influenced, causing the themes of his plays to be mainly about madness, illusion and isolation . His play, Six Characters In Search Of An 
Author, marked the height of his career. He was awarded the Noble Prize in 1934, and passed away shortly after in 1936. Although no one will ever be exactly like Pirandello, his influence has been passed along to writers such as Beckett and Ionesco. Luigi Pirandello's play, Six Characters In Search Of An Author, is more than theory, it is a dramatization for the stage and for the novel.
Lee A. Jacobus, The Bedford Introduction to DRAMA, sixth edition.
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