{"product_id":"pirandellos-henry-iv-paperback","title":"Pirandello's Henry IV - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuigi Pirandello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTom Stoppard\u003c\/b\u003e (Revised by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this meeting of two of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Tom Stoppard has reinvigorated Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece of madness and sanity. After a fall from his horse, an Italian aristocrat believes he is the obscure medieval German emperor Henry IV. After twenty years of living this royal illusion, his beloved appears with a noted psychiatrist to shock the madman back to sanity. Their efforts expose that for the past twelve years the nobleman has in fact been sane. With his mask of madness removed, the aristocrat launches an offensive to deflect their unwanted attention. While Pirandello's characters race linguistically about in Stoppardian dervishes, battling for the upper hand-and the greatest laughs-one question emerges: What constitutes sanity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is the author of \u003ci\u003eSix Characters in Search of an Author\u003c\/i\u003e and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.\u003cbr\u003eTom Stoppard was born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia. His early years were spent in Singapore, India and, from 1946, England, after his mother married an officer in the British Army. Leaving school at seventeen, Stoppard worked as a reporter in Bristol, before moving to London to work as a theatre critic and feature writer. During this period he began to write plays for radio and for the stage and published his only novel, \u003ci\u003eLord Malquist and Mr Moon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eHis first major success, \u003ci\u003e Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, was produced in London in 1967 at the Old Vic after critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent plays include\u003ci\u003e Enter a Free Man, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour\u003c\/i\u003e (with Andre Previn), \u003ci\u003eAfter Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. His radio plays include \u003ci\u003eIf You're Glad, I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIn the Native State\u003c\/i\u003e. Work for television includes \u003ci\u003eProfessional Foul \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSquaring the Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. His film credits include \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, which he also directed, Shakespeare \u003ci\u003ein Love\u003c\/i\u003e (with Marc Norman) and \u003ci\u003eEnigma\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eIn August 2002 the Royal National Theatre in London premièred Stoppard's trilogy - \u003ci\u003eVoyage, Shipwreck \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e - three sequential self-contained plays that comprise \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.28 x 5.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52503205380403,"sku":"9780802141941","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NzVLdHBZWGlBNGI4b3lwOThDN2U1QT09.webp?v=1760165830","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/pirandellos-henry-iv-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}