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...used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going together to the Island of Majorca where Chopin almost died of his first tuberculous attack. His mistress was his nurse for eight years. Then she tired and wrote Lucrezia Floriani, in which she appears as a motherly protectress and Chopin as an exquisite who was often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after...
...intervals ever since. His output has been stupendous, including six volumes of verse, 365 short stories, novels and 22 plays of varying character. At the root of all his work is a scornful yet not too grim irony. To date Six Characters in Search of an Author and Floriani's Wife are his only plays to be produced here...
...Floriani's Wife. Academically interesting, but not emotionally vigorous, this play by Luigi Pirandello (Italian playwright, who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
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