• Merchant family, married off to daughter from similar family
• Wife should have been institutionalized because she was crazy but he took care of her anyway
o Influenced characters with different realities
o Madness
o Art vs life- what is more real?
• Right You Are if You Think You Are, Tonight we Improvise, Henry IV, Six Characters
• Italian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1934. He wrote the satirical tragicomedy Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921). The play was part of a movement known as theatricalism or, anti-illusionism. The theatricalists rejected realist drama and substituted the dreamlike, the expressive and the symbolic because realism abandoned the defining tools of drama such as poetry, interaction between actors and audience, soliloquies, asides and bare stages