The ages of man
By: by Thornton Wilder
Edition: Samuel French acting ed.
Series: Thornton Wilder one act series
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780573700002
Subjects: Drama; One-act plays
Description: Presents Wilder's series of stirring short works that capture four important stages of life.

Infancy. Nursemaid Millie brings baby Tommy to Central Park in the hopes of a rendezvous with handsome patrolman Avonzino.

Childhood. A child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, mother, and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe.

Youth. To his horror, middle-aged Captain Gulliver finds himself marooned, dying of hunger and thirst in "The country of the young"--a world of youth so mistrustful of age that anyone approaching thirty is ritually dispatched.

The rivers under the earth. On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin, the Carter family--Mr. and Mrs. Carter and their teen-aged son and duaghter--enjoys a summer's eve.
Table of contents: title: Infancy -- ; title: Childhood -- ; title: Youth -- The; title: rivers under the earth.