Books like 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.
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Henry IV
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.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
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.
Endgame
A play: in a bare room after some unexplained catastrophe, blind, chair-bound Hamm and his servant Clov, who cannot sit down, play out their last moves while Hamm's parents live in two dustbins.
Happy Days
A play: Winnie, buried to her waist in a mound of scorched earth, chatters cheerfully through her day with her toothbrush and handbag while her husband Willie crawls about behind.
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.
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.
Heartbreak House
A play: on the eve of the First World War, young Ellie Dunn arrives at old Captain Shotover's ship-shaped house in Sussex, where his daughters and their guests play at love while the old order drifts.
The Emperor Jones
A play: Brutus Jones, an escaped convict who has made himself emperor of a Caribbean island, flees into the forest the night his subjects rise against him.
Caligula
A play: after the death of his sister Drusilla, the young emperor Caligula decides that men die and are not happy, and sets out to use his absolute power to live by that truth.
The Caretaker
Aston brings Davies, an old tramp, home to his cluttered room in West London, and Davies starts playing Aston off against his brother Mick to keep his place.