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Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer's correspondence. In these letters, Wilder, the author of Our Town, draws on his vast reservoir of learning and his incessant reading to inform, encourage, instruct, and entertain.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Wilder's Classic One Acts

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2012

This collection of Wilder's most famous one act plays includes, "The Long Christmas Dinner," "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden," "Pullman Car Hiawatha," "Queens of France," "Such Things Only Happen in Books," and "Love and How to Cure It." In these mini-masterpieces, Wilder experiments with techniques and dramatic forms he would later develop in his celebrated full-length works, "Our Town," "The Matchmaker," "The Skin of Our Teeth," and "The Alcestiad." Among these plays we encounter a first glimpse of Wilder's Stage Manager; his use of pantomime, minimal scenery, and farce; as well as his signature connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of the human experience.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Childhood

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Thornton Wilder Comedy Characters: 2 male, 3 female In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans. Startling truths emerge on both sides, as pretense challenges the family to discard the traditional roles of parent, spouse, child, and sibling--blurring the lines between perception and reality, artifice and innocence. "Wilder has a great fit for comic fantasy. Childhood is Wilder at his best." - New York Daily News

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Beaux' Stratagem

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2010

From the play by George FarquharComedyCharacters: 8 male, 5female, with doubling Various Locations The play tells the story of two young bucks who, having spent all their money by living too well, leave London and roam from town to town in search of love and fortune. In order to find a wealthy heiress for at least one of them, they pose as master and servant - exchanging roles from one town to the next. In Lichfield, Aimwell is the master and Archer the servant, and there they meet the lovely, wealthy Dorinda and her equally desirable sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Sullen. They set their caps for these women, but problems abound. Kate is married to a drunken sot who despises her; the innkeeper's saucy daughter, Cherry, has set her cap for Archer; Dorinda's mother, Lady Bountiful, mistakenly believes herself to be a great healer of the sick, and she guards her daughter like a dragoness; and a band of brigands plans to rob the house of Lady Bountiful that very night, putting all schemes in jeopardy. This is a play in the great tradition of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer and Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal. It is classic, formal, robust and hilarious. "A delightful romp ...

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Ages of Man

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder's last plays - a series of one-acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one-act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's Ages of Man presents his series of stirring short works that capture four important stages of life. Contents: "Infancy" "Childhood" "Youth" "The Rivers Under the Earth "

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Seven Deadly Sins

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder's last plays - a series of one acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's The Seven Deadly Sins presents a series of short works depicting the complexity and consequences of human frailty. Contents: "The Drunken Sisters "(Gluttony) "Bernice" (Pride) "The Wreck on the 5:25 "(Sloth) "A Ringing of Doorbells "(Envy) "In Shakespeare and the Bible "(Wrath) "Someone From Assisi" (Lust) "Cement Hands "(Avarice)

Thornton Wilder (Author)

American Characteristics and Other Essays

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Alcestiad

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Thornton Wilder referred to "The Alcestiad" as "a mixture of religious revival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do." In it, he retells the ancient legend of Alcestis, Queen of Thessaly, who gave her life for her husband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from Hell by Hercules. When the brave and confused Alcestis returns from the dead, asking large questions about what matters most in life and how we lead it, we catch more than a glimpse of Emily in Act III of "Our Town." Like Emily, Wilder's Alcestis is a seeker after understanding, to whom "there is only one misery, and that is ignorance." Written in the tradition of the early Greek tragedies, enhanced by Wilder's quintessential combination of plainspoken poignancy and humor, neither death nor happiness is what it seems to be in this work of enormous emotional range. "The Alcestiad" is followed, according to Greek tradition, by a short, comic Satyr play, The Drunken Sisters.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Queens of France

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2013

In New Orleans in 1869, M'su Cahusac, a charlatan of a lawyer, preys on vulnerable women, convincing each one that she is a legitimate descendant of the long-lost Dauphin, who fled Paris for New Orleans at the age of 10 during the French Revolution. Therefore, he tells each victim, she is the rightful Queen of France. Tantalized by visions of wealth, palaces and power, each victim responds in her own fashion to this preposterous revelation, which the lawyer claims is supported by the Historical Society of Paris.

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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Winner 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of "Our Town." This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents "Our Town" as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. Described by Edward Albee as ..".the greatest American play ever written," the story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually-in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre-die. Thornton Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Pullman Car Hiawatha - A Play in One Act

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2014

This one-act comedy, set in a Pullman car on a train traveling from New York to Chicago in December, 1930, introduces techniques Wilder would use in future three-act plays: The stage is virtually bare, with only a balcony or bridge and two flights of stairs, and the play is narrated by a Stage Manager. One of the characters speaks words that foreshadow Emily's words in Our Town. The play includes a character representing Grover's Corners, Ohio-a forerunner of Our Town's Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. The cast includes the hours of the day, the weather, the planets, and supernatural beings. Conventional time is suspended, and the only true measures of existence are life and death. Pullman Car takes us on a metaphorical journey by train through the American landscape, a diverse band of travelers encapsulated in a Pullman car hurtle through time, space and a range of emotions.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

A Doll's House

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2016

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's most notable play about a waning marriage, and the social constructs between a husband and wife. Thornton Wilder's acting version of A Doll's House premiered on Broadway at the Morsco Theatre in December 1937, under the direction of Jed Harris.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T

Editura: THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 1998

TCG is proud to conclude the centennial year of Thornton Wilder's birth with the publication of Volume Two of his collected short plays.Thornton Wilder -- winner of three Pulitzer Prizes (one for fiction; two for drama) -- was not only one of America's greatest men-of-letters, but one of the most popular and most enjoyed. In addition to such highly regarded and popular novels as The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Ides of March, he was one of our most successful playwrights. To this day, Our Town, The Matchmaker, and The Skin of Our Teeth remain among the best-loved and most-produced plays in the canon.To many contemporary playwrights, Wilder is -- together with Gertrude Stein, whom he championed -- the font of experimental drama in America. The diversity of form in his best-known works proves his mastery. Though his full-length works were few, he is widely perceived as one of this century's major American dramatists.

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2020

"Wilder's unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant an

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2018

A father, mother and two of their three surviving children drive from Newark, New Jersey to Camde

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Bridge of San Luis Rey

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2021

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Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2022

"For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the grea

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Editura: DOVER PUBN INC

Anul aparitiei: 2023

In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plu

Thornton Wilder (Author)

Thornton Wilder's Playlets

Editura: SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE

Anul aparitiei: 2022

This anthology by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder is a collection of twen

Thornton Wilder (Author)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Editura: DIGIREADS.COM

Anul aparitiei: 2023

First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is