BERTHOLD. Yes, yes, seriously! DOCTOR. I told you so! FRIDA. Oh God, oh God! DI NOLLI. Frida, come here! DONNA MATILDA. He's mad, mad! DI NOLLI. Hold him! BELCREDI (_while they take him away by the left exit, he protests as he is borne out_). No, no, you're not mad! You're not mad. He's not mad! (_They go out by the left amid cries and excitement. After a moment, one hears a still sharper, more piercing cry from Donna Matilda, and then, silence_). HENRY IV. (_who has remained on the stage between Landolph, Harold and Ordulph, with his eyes almost starting out of his head, terrified by the life of his own masquerade which has driven him to crime_). Ah now ... yes now ... inevitably (_calls his valets around him as if to protect him_) here together ... here together ... for ever ... for ever. _Curtain._ NOTE TO "HENRY IV." With the author's consent and approval, the translator has omitted a few lines from the original Italian where their highly parenthetical character made the English version unnecessarily complex. One or two allusions have also been suppressed since they have not the same value in English as in Italian.--E.S. RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO) (_Così è, se vi pare!_) A PARABLE IN THREE ACTS BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR LIVINGSTON CHARACTERS LAMBERTO LAUDISI. SIGNORA FROLA. PONZA, SON-IN-LAW OF SIGNORA FROLA. SIGNORA PONZA, PONZA'S WIFE. COMMENDATORE AGAZZI, A PROVINCIAL COUNCILLOR. AMALIA, HIS WIFE. DINA, THEIR DAUGHTER. SIRELLI. SIGNORA SIRELLI, HIS WIFE. THE PREFECT. CENTURI, A POLICE COMMISSIONER. SIGNORA CINI. SIGNORA NENNI. A BUTLER. A NUMBER OF GENTLEMEN AND LADIES. OUR OWN TIMES, IN A SMALL ITALIAN TOWN, THE CAPITAL OF A PROVINCE. RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO) ACT I _The parlor in the house of Commendatore Agazzi._ _A door, the general entrance, at the back; doors leading to the wings, left and right._ LAUDISI _is a man nearing the forties, quick and energetic in his movements. He is smartly dressed, in good taste. At this moment he is wearing a semi-formal street suit: a sack coat, of a violet cast, with black lapels, and with black braid around the edges; trousers of a light but different color. Laudisi has a keen, analytical mind, but is impatient and irritable in argument. Nevertheless, however angry he gets momentarily, his good humor soon comes to prevail. Then he laughs and lets people have their way, enjoying, meanwhile, the spectacle of the stupidity and gullibility of others._