Bentley, Enc. "Six Characters in Search of an Author," in The Pirandello Commentaries, Northwestern University Press, 1986, pp 57-77.
An essay that interprets the Father as a schizophrenic Cambon, Glauco, ed. Pirandello: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice Hall, 1967.
A collection of fourteen essays, including excerpts from Adnano Tilgher's famous "Life Versus Form" and Robert Brustein's essay on Pirandello from his The Theatre of Revolt.
Charney, Maurice. "Shakespearean and Pirandellian. Hamlet and Six Characters in Search of an Author," Modern Drama, September, 1981, pp 323-29.
Compares Pirandello's play with Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, finding remarkable similarities and crucial differences.
Clark, Hoover W "Existentialism and Pirandello's Set Personaggi, " Itahca, September, 1966, pp. 276-84. Examines Pirandello's play for elements that correspond to the main tenets of existentialist thought.
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