The Gascon... Enrico IV “for Jokeµ. A Suggestion for “Enrico IVµ by Pirandello
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Abstract
The paper highlights the influence exerted by Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano (1897), successfully performed in Rome at the Teatro Valle (1900), in the writing of Pirandello’s Enrico IV (1922). Present for decades on the Italian scene, the “heroic comedyµ represents both an anti-model and a stimulus. Pirandello’s unsettling statements on the Gascon costume of Enrico IV reveal distant suggestions and a possible genetic image at the base of the parody of the historical drama, on which Enrico IV is structured.
Keywords
- Pirandello
- Enrico IV
- Rostand
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Parody
- Historical Drama
