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A play: twenty years after a fall from his horse at a costume pageant, a wealthy Italian still believes he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and his old circle arrives with a doctor to try to cure him.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
The Damned Yard
After the death of Fra Petar, a Bosnian monk, a younger friar remembers his stories of the months he spent in an Istanbul prison, and of Ćamil, a young scholar who came to believe he was an Ottoman prince.
The Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
A madman with a gift for impersonation talks his way into a Milan police headquarters and, posing as a judge, reopens the case of an anarchist who fell from a fourth-floor window during questioning.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
The Great Galeoto
A play: when a wealthy Madrid gentleman takes his late friend's son into his home, the town's idle talk about the young man and his patron's wife begins to make the scandal it imagines.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Four plays, among them No Exit, in which three dead strangers are shown into a windowless drawing room in hell, and Dirty Hands, about a young communist ordered to kill a party leader.
Murder in the Cathedral
A verse play: in December 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket returns to Canterbury after seven years of exile, and four tempters and four knights arrive.
Othello
A Moorish general in the service of Venice marries a senator's daughter and is talked, by a man who tells him he is his friend, into murdering her on their wedding sheets.
The Iceman Cometh
A play: in Harry Hope's dive saloon in 1912, a roomful of drunks living on pipe dreams wait for Hickey, the salesman whose yearly binge they love, and this time he arrives sober.
King Lear
An old king divides his kingdom between two of his three daughters by asking them to say how much they love him, and walks out into a storm and his own disintegrating mind when they take him at his word.