"How has the art of theater managed to survive at all into the era of modernism and the era of what is currently, however ineptly, called postmodernism?" asks preeminent theater scholar Eric Bentley. "Through the work of [Luigi] Pirandello, I should think, more than any other single individual." Bentley's English versions of four of Pirandello's most celebrated plays--collected here for the first time--capture the playwright's voice with...