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Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368131
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368148
The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833664336
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368131
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368148
The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.
Author : Thornton Wilder,J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Library of America Thornton Wi
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015069192824
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 -- Plays for Bleecker Street -- The seven ages of man -- Writings on theater.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538152409
Thornton Wilder is one of America’s greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, lectures, and film and television scripts. In The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak exhaustively covers Wilder’s life and extensive career. Entries not only contain every one of his novels, plays, and scripts, but also his letters, journals, and all other existing works by Wilder, published or unpublished. In addition, this valuable reference features entries on the individuals who worked with Wilder and friends and family members who were a great influence on him. With a biography of Wilder to introduce the work and a chronology and selected bibliography to augment the entries, The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on one of America’s greatest playwrights and finest novelists.
Author : Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000480740
This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi. Through this study of archival sources and close reading, readers will understand Wilder’s avant-garde staging and innovative time sequences not as a break with the past, but as a response to the classics. The author traces the genesis of unforgettable characters like Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker, Emily Webb in Our Town, and George Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth. Vergil’s expression, "Here are the tears of the world, and human matters touch the heart" haunts Wilder’s oeuvre. Understanding Vergil’s phrase as "tears for the beauty of the world," Wilder utilizes scenes depicting the beauty of the world and the sorrow when individuals recognize this too late. Wilder exhorts us to observe lovingly, alert to the wonder of the everyday. This work will appeal to actors and directors, professors and students in classics and in American literature, those fascinated by modern drama and performance studies, and non-specialists, theatre-goers, and readers in the general public.
Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Judith P. Hallett,Edyta K. Oczkowicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527523647
The essays in this volume evolved from papers presented at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. They examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing both drama and fiction. The book’s authors use the term “collaboration” in its broadest sense, at times in response to Wilder’s critics who faulted him for “borrowing” from other, earlier, literary works rather than recognizing these “borrowings” as central to the artistic process of collaboration. In exploring Wilder’s collaborative efforts of different kinds, the essays not only consider how Wilder worked with and revised earlier literary texts and the ideas central to those texts, but also analyze how Wilder worked with and inspired other creative individuals and how recent productions of Wilder’s plays, both in the US and abroad, have been the products of unique forms of collaboration.
Author : Lincoln Konkle
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264978
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 155936131X
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.
Author : Marc Robinson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300170047
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.
Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368506
"In [Wilder's] A Doll's House . . . the relationship of dialogue to action is very special, like nothing that had been heard on stage before."—David Hammond, PlayMakers Repertory Company Not staged since its Broadway premiere starring Ruth Gordon in 1937, the first-ever publication of this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama is revitalized through the shrewd lens of American drama master, Thornton Wilder. With his famous, clarifying dialogue, Wilder uproots this classic from Norway and funnels it through an American lens. The marriage of Ibsen's famed naturalistic style melds with Wilder's knack for emotional nuance to create a rich, demonstrative edition of the revered standard A Doll's House. Henrik Ibsen has often been referred to as the father of realistic drama. The Norwegian playwright is best known for his major works Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. Thornton Wilder was an accomplished novelist and playwright in the twentieth century. Two of his four major plays garnered Pulitzer Prizes, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). His play The Matchmaker was later adapted into the record-breaking musical Hello, Dolly! The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of his seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and his next-to-last novel, The Eighth Day received the National Book Award (1968). Our Town continues to be the most produced American play in the world.
Author : Eran Almagor,Lisa Maurice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004347724
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in modern popular media, and focusing on a comparison between ancient and modern sets of values.
