The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
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Theater Neapolitan Style is the first English-language anthology of one-act plays by the brilliant Neapolitan-Italian actor-playwright-director, Eduard De Filippo (1900-1984). These five plays (Philosophically Speaking; Gennareniello; So Long, Fifth Floor; The Part of Hamlet; Dead People Aren't Scary) offer the reader/spectator startling glimpses into unforgettable lives and situations - glimpses that record De Filippo's favorite emblems with marvelous clarity: a Neapolitan setting, a Neapolitan family, and a Neapolitan commedia figure. De Filippo's one-acts are a gift for theater scholars and practitioners alike. Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte is Professor of Theatre at Baruch College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.