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Драмы Пиранделло в истории жанра
In the history of dramaturgy, the 19th c. was a time when drama emerged as a “middle” genre, which eliminated a direct opposition between tragedy and comedy and synthesized a number of their characteristics in a new genre. In theatre repertoires, this genre transformation revealed itself in the prevalence of plots that exploited the theme of adultery, which in the classical period belonged to the high, tragic register. Pirandello’s works belong to repertoire drama and retain all its external, formula characteristics. This formula is destroyed either from within, by a paradoxical plot twist that demonstrated relativity of social relations and accepted morals, or, in the trilogy “theatre in theatre”, from without by revealing the conventions of theatre and finding tragic dimensions in a trivial theme.