Naked Masks

This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.Pirandello awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself.The editor Eric Bentley is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liol and Pirandello''s important Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author.Included Liol It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way