Pinocchio (Methuen Modern Plays)

by Carlo Collodi (Author), Lee Hall (Author), Carlo Collodi (Author), Lee Hall (Author), Lee Hall (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $15.94

  Writer Lee Hall and director Marcello Magni (co-founder of the Theatre de Complicite) rework Carlo Collodi's classic tale of Pinocchio in slapstick commedia dell'arte style which should appeal to all ages.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $14.46

  The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi's original. Far more sophisticated, funny, and hard-hitting than the many abridged versions (and the sentimentalized film) of the story would suggest, Ann Lawson Lucas's translation captures the complexity of Collodi's word-play, slapstick humour, and immediacy of dialogue. An adult reader will recognize social and political satire, and the invaluable introduction and notes illuminate the cultural traditions on which Collodi drew.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $5.93

  This new edition of the children's classic fable, which first appeared in Italy in 1883, tells the story of Geppetto, a poor wood-carver, and his creation Pinochio, a puppet who could walk, talk and have many adventures until he earned the thing he most desired - to be a real boy.