num_pages: 80
description: Pirandello's savage comedy from 1921 reflects the warp of European reality after World War I and advances his philosophical argument that reality is never a rock certainty, only a subjective creation. Mr. Brustein's Enrico IV adopts a modern idiom with graceful unobtrusiveness --New York Times
language: English
title: Enrico IV
titlecomplete: Enrico IV (Plays for Performance Series)
characters: Landolfo (Lolo), Marquis Carlo di Nolli, Bertoldo (Fino), Dr. Dionisio Genoni, Giovanni, Baron Tito Belcredi, Ordulfo (Momo), Arialdo (Franco), Frida, Henry IV, Marchioness Matilde Spina
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Nobel Prize, Italy, Italian Literature, Literature, School
ratings_count: 1537
places: Italy, Umbria
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: John Florio Prize
category: Julian Mitchell
publisher: Ivan R. Dee