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Collected plays & writings on theater
2007, Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
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Collected plays & writings on theater
2007, Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
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Table of Contents
Nascuntur poetae
Proserpina and the devil
Fanny Otcott
Brother fire
The penny that beauty spent
The angel on the ship
The message and Jehanne
Childe Roland to the dark tower came
Centaurs
Leviathan
And the sea shall give up its dead
Now the servant's name was Malchus
Mozart and the Gray Steward
Hast Thou considered my servant job?
The flight into Egypt
The angel that troubled the waters
The long Christmas dinner
Queens of France
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Love and how to cure it
Such things only happen in books
The happy journey to Trenton and Camden
Our town
The skin of our teeth
The matchmaker
The Alcestiad
The drunken sisters
The marriage we deplore
The unerring instinct
Scenes from The Emporium
Bernice
The wreck on the five-twenty-five
A ringing of doorbells
In Shakespeare and the Bible
Someone from Assisi
Cement hands
Infancy
Childhood
Youth
The rivers under the earth
Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
Notes for the producer : The Long Christmas Dinner
Notes for the producer : The Happy Journey
A preface for Our Town
Our Town : story of the play
Our Town : some suggestions for the director
Our Town - from stage to screen : a correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Sol Lesser
Preface to Three Plays
Notes on The Alcestiad
Noting the nature of farce
Some thoughts on playwriting
Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jaakobs Traum
Sophocles's Oedipus Rex
Foreword to three comedies by Johann Nestroy
George Bernard Shaw
Shadow of a doubt.
Edition Notes
"J.D. McClatchy selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume"--Leaf following t.p.
"This volume collects all the plays that Thornton Wilder published in book form in his lifetime (except for the translation of Lucrèce). It does not include several plays written during his school years. This volume also contains 14 essays and short pieces"--P. 835.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 835-871).
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