Pirandello's Henry Iv (2004)

Authors: Luigi Pirandello, Stoppard, Tom

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“There are two full-length, life-size modern portraits of a young man and a young woman dressed as Henry IV and Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. HAROLD, LANDOLF, ORDULF, and BERTOLD—wearing the costumes of eleventh-century German knights—enter.
LANDOLF   Next—the throne room!
HAROLD   The throne room of the Emperor’s Palace at Goslar!
ORDULF   Or could be Hartzburg . . .
HAROLD   . . . or Worms, depending.
LANDOLF   Depending on where we are in the story—he keeps us on the hop.
ORDULF   Saxony . . ....
HAROLD   Lombardy . . .
LANDOLF   The Rhine . . .
ORDULF   Keep your voice down.
LANDOLF   He’s asleep.
BERTOLD   Hang about. I’m confused. I thought we were doing Henry IV.
LANDOLF   So?
BERTOLD   Well, this place, these getups—it’s not him.
ORDULF   Who?
BERTOLD   The King of France, Henry IV.
LANDOLF   Whoops.
ORDULF   He thought it was the French one.
LANDOLF   Wrong country, mate, wrong century, wrong Henry.
HAROLD   It’s the German Henry IV, Salian Dynasty.MoreLess Read More Read Less