Best of
Theatre

1952

The Deep Blue Sea


Terence Rattigan - 1952
    A play sparked by the suicide of actor, Kenneth Morgan, with whom Rattigan had been in love.

Naked Masks: Five Plays


Luigi Pirandello - 1952
    His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself.The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play LiolĂ  and Pirandello's important "Preface" to Six Characters in Search of an Author.Included Plays: LiolĂ  It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way