A character in this play chides his servants for not living in a dream of history, and thereby “torturing themselves in ceaseless anxiety to know how their fates and fortunes will work out.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play, whose title character is sent to inhabit an 11th century villa after falling and hurting his head during a costume pageant.
ANSWER: Henry IV [or Enrico IV]
[10e] This author wrote about the distinction between fiction and reality in plays like Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
ANSWER: Luigi Pirandello
[10h] The doctor plots to shock Henry out of his madness by replacing two of these things, the only two modern objects visible in the villa.
ANSWER: pictures [or portraits; or paintings; prompt on artworks]
<Albert Nyang, European Literature>