Henry IV

MARY ANN WITT AND MARTHA WITT return to Pirandello with yet a bigger challenge: translating the complex play Henry IV and placing it next to The License, a much less performed work. The insightful and original introduction well supports this coupling, which is based on the theme of madness, so central in Pirandello’s production. An absolute must read for understanding Pirandello’s work . Daniela Bini, University of Texas, Austin — At once elegant and absorbing, subversive and vibrant, this superb translation of Pirandello’s story of the bankruptcy of reason and of the seemingly pointlessness of life, is truly one ripping good read. Catching the humor of a desperately moving journey of self-invention and unpredictability, the translators skillfully succeed in bringing out Pirandello’s bleak and yet life-affirming creation of alternative worlds… — Valeria Finucci, Duke University New English translation. Introduction, notes, bibliography.— Google Books