Talk:Thornton Wilder

message: Wilder's mother's maiden name was "Niven" along with it being his middle name as well. One can't help wondering whether or not he was related to his contemporary the ultra-famous film actor, raconteur and writer in his own right David Niven. Racing Forward (talk) 23:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Was He Related to David Niven?

message: Was Hello, Dolly based on The Matchmaker, or was it based on The Merchant of Yonkers? Dpbsmith (talk) 13:35, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The musical is adapted directly from the Matchmaker, which was a reworking of the Merchant of Yonkers, , according to the Thornton Wilder Society . The reference to Johann Nestroy's play, which the Society argues was itself inspired by an earlier play, seems too-prominent. -Willmcw 20:58, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Matchmaker and Dolly?

message: An anon changed "China" to "Asia" in the sentence:
:...spending part of his childhood in China...
I'm reverting it, because he did grow in China. For example,  "Thornton Wilder had firsthand experience of China in the early 1910s when his father was appointed American consul in Shanghai." I can't figure out what the anon had in mind, unless he thinks "Asia" is a politically-correct synonym for China. Now, one could change that to say he spent his childhood in "the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe, the Mind of God..." Dpbsmith (talk) 00:30, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  China -> Asia? 

message: I just cleaned this article up, after someone changed the titles of Wilder's plays to "A Day in the Life of a Dead Homo" and other such bigoted tripe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MightyLeaf (talk • contribs) 19:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disgusting comments 

message: "Wilder was active in many student groups: T.B.I.Y.T.B."  I tried to find a reference to this but wasn't successful, although it is mentioned in the Yale Press.  Is it one group?  Several?  What does it do? Lordknave (talk) 20:42, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  T.B.I.Y.T.B.

message: Their is no doubt about the subject treatment in Wilder's plays as having been influenced by Existentialism, and apparently Sarte is who interested him in Existentialism. Wilder certainly didn't buy Sarte's brand of atheism as anyone who reads his plays will see. However to state that Wilder understood atheism as an essential part of existentialism is too much to assert. After all Sarte was a communist; does that mean that existentrialism is defined by communisim? Certainly not. Existentialism precedes and is much too wide in scope to encompass any particular theology including atheism. That was simply Sarte's choice and belief; it is not a tenet of Existentialism. In fact Camus and Nietsche [among others such as Kant and Dovstovesky]] helped define Existentialism so that such narrow focus as is implied in the statement in this article would never be characterisitic of Existentialism. 75.85.42.184 (talk) 07:49, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Atheism isn't a theology--it is precisely the absence of theological modes of "thinking." And you're suggesting that Nietzsche believed in a supernatural being? DionysosProteus (talk) 13:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wilder as existentialist 

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