<DIV><p> <I>Fo Plays: 1</I> contains some of the playwright's best work, including: <I>Mistero Buffo</I>, a work based on research into medieval mystery plays; <I>Accidental Death of an Anarchist</I>, which concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; and <I>Trumpets and Raspberries</I>, a play in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer, FIAT, is mistaken for a left-wing terrorist.</p><p>The volume also contains two of Fo's previously unpublished short farces: <I>The Virtuous Burglar</I> and <I>One was Nude and One Wore Tails</I>.</p><p> <b>Dario Fo</b> is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires.</p></DIV>