Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573613494
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This play is a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Author: Donald C. HabermanOur Town and Other Plays
Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141184586
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A collection of Wilder's drama: Our Town searches for a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life; The Skin of Our Teeth depicts the events of family life against the vast dimensions of time and place; and The Matchmaker explores aspirations for participation in life.
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780062280817
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
Author: Thornton WilderReadings on Our Town
Author: Thomas SieboldPublisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737701890
Category : City and town life in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder is considered a classic portrayal of small-town middle-class life in America. Essays included discuss the theatrical principles Wilder utilized, literary style and criticism as well as dominant themes in this play.
Three Plays
Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063060108
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
“Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” —New York Times From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. This essential compendium includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare. Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed on stages all around the world. The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's brilliant and enduring romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize in 1943. The Matchmaker, a dazzling farce about money and love, stars the irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi, who leads young and old on an adventure that changes their lives. It was later adapted into the famed musical Hello, Dolly!
Author: Thornton WilderSome Thoughts on the Construction of 'Our Town' (Thornton Wilder)
Author: Florian BurkhardtPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638435571
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Can you imagine Our Town as a play in the manner of the nineteenth century? Imagine an educated, interested audience watching the story of George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Threre is a stage in front of them decorated with the façade of two houses, two fences, some flowers, a painted butternut tree. There are two stoves inside the buildings, tables with tableclothes, some kitchen utensils, a hall-stand and so on. The audience follows the story. They watch Dr. Gibbs chatting with Howie Newsome, the Webbs having breakfast. They see how George and Emily fall in love with one another in Morgan’s drugstore and then they marry. Emily dies and George mourns for his wife while she is talking to other deaths. Of course this is a speculative question, but do you think people would enjoy that play? It would be rather boring, I think. “The play has no dramatic conflict, there is no significance within the plot. There is nothing special about George and Emily. The whole thing is ordinary and unimportant”, they would probably say – and they would be right. So why did Our Town win the Pulitzer-Prize? Why was it called the American drama by some critics and why did it become so popular in postwar Germany? Because it is not presented in the manner the nineteenth century. The construction of Our Town is totally different from what we call “fourth-wall stage”. The play is presented in a (at that time) new way: It is a narrative drama. As the form of such a drama gives new possibilities to potray a story, Our Town is far more than just its plot. The main emphasis of the meaning moves away from the plot towards the form. The epic aspects of Our Town and its effects on the interpretation will be the topic of this essay.
Our Town
Author: Thornton WilderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140102871
Category : Theater programs
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
