Drama. "six Characters In Search Of The Dramatis Personae Meta

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), the winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an influential Italian dramatist and a very productive writer in the first half of 20th century. His novels helped establish his surging reputation in literature during 1990s. Starting playwriting after 1910, he achieved the highest career accomplishment in this field. As one of the most innovative dramatists of modernism, Pirandello creatively integrated improv comedy and structure of "play-within-a-play", which enriched dramatic performances. As a classic of metadrama. his masterpiece "Six Characters in Search of an Author" won him the Nobel Prize. Pirandello was not the first one using "play-within-a-play" in his drama, but he perfectly combined the two "plays" together, presenting the plots of stories while exploring the art law of drama through demonstrating to the audiences his writing of the play. The discussion of playwriting which should be in art theory texts was introduced into the drama script itself, made his work the representative of metadrama. The theory of metadrama has not been intensively studied in China. Although there are researches about metadrama theory by foreign academicians, few have been conducted on "Six Characters in Search of an Author" from this perspective. The paper is to explore the theory of metadrama and the utilization of this art form in "Six Characters in Search of an Author", and analyze metadrama from the unity of multi-subject and multi-object of play-within-a-play, the exposure of conception, the illustration of language and the similarity to impromptu methods of performance. The art features of the work written by this innovative dramatist would be comprehensively presented to the readers through the study of "Six Characters in Search of an Author" from the fresh perspective of metadrama...