HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
by title:
Thornton Wilder : co...
MARC Display
Thornton Wilder : collected plays & writings on theater.
by
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2007.
ISBN:
1598530038 (alk. paper)
9781598530032 (alk. paper)
Series:
Library of America ; 172
Description:
x, 871 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Requests:
0
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.
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 servent's name was Malchus -- Mozart and the gray steward -- Hast thou considered my servant Job -- The flight into Egype -- 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 -- Plays for Bleecker Street -- The seven ages of man -- Writings on theater.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
812.52 Wi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.