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SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

PRODUCTION REVIEWS

Stark Young (review date 22 November 1922)

SOURCE: "Brains," in The New Republic, Vol. XXXII, No. 416, 22 November 1922, pp. 335-36.

[An American playwright, poet, and novelist, Young was a prominent member of the Agrarian group of Southern poets with Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and several others, from 1928 until the mid-1950s. He served for twenty years as drama critic for such journals as the New York Times, and the best of this criticism is collected in Immortal Shadows: A Book of Dramatic Criticism (1948). He is especially acclaimed for his translations of Anton Chekhov's dramas. In the following review of the 1922 stage production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in New York City, he maintains that Pirandello's drama shows a "brilliant originality" and is a "fine theatrical piece. "]

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1. Introduction
2. Biographical Information
3. Major Works
4. Critical Reception
5. Principal Works
6. Author Commentary
7. Overviews And General Studies
8. Six Characters In Search Of An Author
9. Critical Commentary
10. Henry Iv
11. Further Reading
12. Copyright

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