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Thornton Wilder, collected plays & writings on theater, [J.D. McClatchy, selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume]

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Thornton Wilder, collected plays & writings on theater, [J.D. McClatchy, selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 835-871)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thornton Wilder

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71286722

Responsibility statement

[J.D. McClatchy, selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume]

Series statement

The library of America, 172

Sub title

collected plays & writings on theater

Summary

This collection takes the measure of Wilder's extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, ranging through the full flowering of maturity, and encompassing the intriguing dramatic projects of his later years, such as his adaptation of the ancient story of Alcestis (The Alcestiad) and plays written for dramatic cycles based on the Seven Deadly Sins and the varied ages of an individual's life. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that captures Wilder's reflections on his plays and contains a revealing epistolary account of the film adaptation of Our Town, as well as evaluations of dramatists such as Sophocles, George Bernard Shaw, and the Austrian satirist Johann Nestroy (whose farce Einen Jux will er sich machen Wilder brilliantly transformed into The Matchmaker).--From publisher description

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