Definition of Pirandello

1. Noun. Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936).

Exact synonyms: Luigi Pirandello
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Novelist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirandello

Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Pipistrellus subflavus
Pipola
Pippa
Pipracil
Pipridae
Piptadenia
Piptadenia macrocarpa
Pipturus
Pipturus albidus
Pipturus argenteus
Piqueria
Piraeus
Pirahã
Pirandellian
Pirandello (current term)
Piranga
Piranga flava hepatica
Piranga ludoviciana
Piranga olivacea
Piranga rubra
Pirani
Pirani gauge
Pirate
Pirenella
Pirie's bone
Pirogoff's amputation
Pirogoff's angle
Pirogoff's triangle
Pirojpur District

Literary usage of Pirandello

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1922)
"Not only Chiarelli but half of the younger Italian dramatists—Antonelli, Lopez, Secondino and others—have been strongly influenced by Pirandello but without ..."

2. The Drama of Transition: Native and Exotic Playcraft by Isaac Goldberg (1922)
"... of artistic restlessness than a promise of achievement, it is more important potentially than the Futuristic drama. Pirandello, only incidentally a ..."

3. Idling in Italy: Studies of Literature and of Life by Joseph Collins (1920)
"The art of Pirandello is a subtle play of paradoxes and analyses of motives ... Without such attention and thought the subtleties of Pirandello often escape ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"Plays of the Italian theatre; one act contemporary drama by Verga, Pirandello, Mor- selli and Lopez. 202 p. О с. "2i Bost., JW Luce bds. $2 n. ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United by Samuel Blatchford (1888)
"LUIGI Pirandello, the owner of a cargo of oranges and lemons brought .by the bark Maria Luigia from Messina to New York, brought a libel in rern against her ..."

6. The Contemporary Drama of Italy by Lander MacClintock (1920)
"Pirandello is entirely Latin in the normal world that he presents, as well as in the abnormal world he constructs. '- Take, for example, the case of the ..."

7. Short Story Classics: (foreign) by William Patten (1907)
"... SIGNORA SPERANZA BY LUIGI Pirandello THE family boarding-house of Signora Carolina ... Pirandello ..."

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