| Description |
x, 871 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Library of America ; 172.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 835-871). |
| 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 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. |
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Our town -- The skin of our teeth -- The matchmaker -- The Alcestiad -- The drunken sisters -- Uncollected plays. The marriage we deplore. The unerring instinct. Scenes from the Emporium. Plays for Bleecker Street. The seven ages of man -- Writings on theater. Notes on Our town. Preface to Three plays. Notes on The Alcestiad. The nature of farce. Some thoughts on playriting. Rihard Beer-Hofmann's Jaakobs Traum. Sophocles's Oedipus rex. Foreword to Three comedies by Johann Nestroy. George Bernard Shaw -- Shadow of a doubt. Chronology. Note on the text. Notes. |
| Added Author |
McClatchy, J. D., 1945-
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| Added Title |
Thornton Wilder, collected plays and writings on theater |
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Collected plays and writings on theater |
| ISBN |
1598530038 (alk. paper) |
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9781598530032 (alk. paper) |
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