This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello's most popular and controversial work, in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry Iv dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be king. In So It Is (If You Think So) the town's people exercise a morbid curiosity, attempting to discover 'the truth' about The Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to be Pirandello's masterpiece, and, in exploring the nature of human personality, each one stretches the resources of drama to its limits.