Conversations With Thornton Wilder
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Conversations With Thornton Wilder
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1992
Conversations With Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town
Thornton Wilder
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Author : Claudette Walsh
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1993
Thornton Wilder written by Claudette Walsh and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Selected Letters Of Thornton Wilder
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-10-12
The Selected Letters Of Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Literary Collections categories.
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Noël Coward, Gene Tunney, Laurence Olivier, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. Wilder tells of roller-skating with Walt Disney, remembers an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describes his life as a soldier in two World Wars, and recalls dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In these pages, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice—informing, encouraging, instructing, and entertaining with his characteristic wit, heart, and exuberance.
The Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder Volume I
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date : 2014-11-01
The Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder Volume I written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Theatre Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Drama categories.
Thornton Wilder, author of such landmark works for the stage as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as the classic novel The Bridges of San Luis Rey is considered one of America's greatest man of letters. This two volume publication collects the complete short works for the stage, including a never-before-published one act play.
Thornton Wilder
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Author : Penelope Niven
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Thornton Wilder written by Penelope Niven and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….A splendid and long needed work." —Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.
The Enthusiast
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Author : Gilbert A. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Ticknor & Fields
Release Date : 1983
The Enthusiast written by Gilbert A. Harrison and has been published by New Haven, Conn. : Ticknor & Fields this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
From boyhood in Wisconsin, California and China, Thornton Wilder's imagination was fired by books and the theater, though he showed little early promise of becoming a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the celebrated author of The Bridge of San Luis Ray. In this first full-length study of the man and the writer, Wilder is seen as an eager, desperately literary Oberlin and Yale undergraduate, as an explorer of ancient and modern Rome, as a schoolmaster working odd hours at his first novel, The Cabala. There are hilarious weeks in Hollywood, fights with producer Jed Harris over the staging of Our Town, contretemps over the acting in The Skin of Our Teeth. We follow his search for tranquility aboard ships, at resorts in Switzerland, Austria, France and Italy, and on brief escapes to hideaways in Florida and Arizona. ISBN 0-89919-197-5 : $19.95.
Thornton Wilder Classical Reception And American Literature
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Author : Stephen J. Rojcewicz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10
Thornton Wilder Classical Reception And American Literature written by Stephen J. Rojcewicz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Classical literature categories.
"This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi. Through this study of archival sources and close reading, readers will understand Wilder's avant-garde staging and innovative time sequences not as a break with the past, but as a response to the classics. The author traces the genesis of unforgettable characters like Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker, Emily Webb in Our Town, and George Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth. Vergil's expression, "Here are the tears of the world, and human matters touch the heart" haunts Wilder's oeuvre. Understanding Vergil's phrase as "tears for the beauty of the world," Wilder utilizes scenes depicting the beauty of the world and the sorrow when individuals recognize this too late. Wilder exhorts us to observe lovingly, alert to the wonder of the everyday. This work will appeal to actors and directors, professors and students in Classics and in American literature, those fascinated by modern drama and performance studies, and non-specialists, theatre-goers, and readers in the general public"--
Thornton Wilder His World
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Author : Linda Simon
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1979
Thornton Wilder His World written by Linda Simon and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive biography of the 3 time Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Thornton Wilder An Intimate Portrait
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Author : Richard Henry Goldstone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Thornton Wilder An Intimate Portrait written by Richard Henry Goldstone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Authors, American categories.
Reviews the major patterns of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's life, personality, novels, and plays, detailing Wilder's relationships with celebrities and friends and the key events of his long career.
Another Day S Begun
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Author : Howard Sherman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Another Day S Begun written by Howard Sherman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Performing Arts categories.
A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play's continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case for the healing powers of Wilder's text to a world confronting multiple crises. Through extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about their own experience of the play and its impact on them professionally and personally – and including background on the play's early years and its pervasiveness in American culture – Another Day's Begun shows why this particular work remains so important, essential, and beloved. Every production of Our Town has a story to tell beyond Wilder's own. One year after the tragedy of 9/11, Paul Newman, in his final stage appearance, played the Stage Manager in Our Town on Broadway. Director David Cromer's 2008 Chicago interpretation would play in five more cities, ultimately becoming New York's longest-running Our Town ever. In 2013, incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility brought Grover's Corners inside a maximum security prison. After the 2017 arena bombing in Manchester UK, the Royal Exchange Theatre chose Our Town as its offering to the stricken community. 80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert itself as an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself. Another Day's Begun explains how this American classic has the power to inspire, heal and endure in the modern day, onstage and beyond.