... extreme contradiction that if one version is true the proponent of the other is not simply mistaken, or lying, but mentally unbalanced. The claims of Signora Flora and Signor Ponza baffle the efforts of the gossips in a small Italian town, and with them Pirandello's theatre audience, to determine whether Ponza is deranged and cruelly conceals his wife( according to the tale ... ...

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