Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello
"Enrico IV" by Luigi Pirandello is a drama written in 1921. After a costumed pageant accident, a nobleman believes himself to be the historical Emperor Henry IV. Twelve years later he recovers but chooses to continue the charade, unable to face a painful reality. When visitors arrive twenty years after the incident with a plan to cure him, a confrontation forces him to choose between truth and madness. The play explores the
boundaries between sanity and insanity, performance and authenticity, examining whether embracing illusion might be more honest than accepting society's false realities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 |
|---|---|
| Title | Enrico IV |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_(Pirandello) Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_IV_(Pirandello) |
| Credits |
Produced by Andrew Sly from a text provided by Liber Liber. www.liberliber.it/ |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 18456 |
| Release Date | May 27, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Nov 1, 2006 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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