Collected plays & writings on theater
By: Thornton Wilder.
Contributors: McClatchy, J. D., 1945-
Series: The library of America -- 172
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 871
ISBN-13: 9781598530032
Work titles: Plays.
Notes: "J.D. McClatchy selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume"--Leaf following t.p.

"This volume collects all the plays that Thornton Wilder published in book form in his lifetime (except for the translation of Lucrèce). It does not include several plays written during his school years. This volume also contains 14 essays and short pieces"--P. 835.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 835-871).
Table of contents: title: Nascuntur poetae; title: Proserpina and the devil; title: Fanny Otcott; title: Brother fire; title: The penny that beauty spent; title: The angel on the ship; title: The message and Jehanne; title: Childe Roland to the dark tower came; title: Centaurs; title: Leviathan; title: And the sea shall give up its dead; title: Now the servant's name was Malchus; title: Mozart and the Gray Steward; title: Hast Thou considered my servant job?; title: The flight into Egypt; title: The angel that troubled the waters; title: The long Christmas dinner; title: Queens of France; title: Pullman Car Hiawatha; title: Love and how to cure it; title: Such things only happen in books; title: The happy journey to Trenton and Camden; title: Our town; title: The skin of our teeth; title: The matchmaker; title: The Alcestiad; title: The drunken sisters; title: The marriage we deplore; title: The unerring instinct; title: Scenes from The Emporium; title: Bernice; title: The wreck on the five-twenty-five; title: A ringing of doorbells; title: In Shakespeare and the Bible; title: Someone from Assisi; title: Cement hands; title: Infancy; title: Childhood; title: Youth; title: The rivers under the earth; title: Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays; title: Notes for the producer : The Long Christmas Dinner; title: Notes for the producer : The Happy Journey; title: A preface for Our Town; title: Our Town : story of the play; title: Our Town : some suggestions for the director; title: Our Town - from stage to screen : a correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Sol Lesser; title: Preface to Three Plays; title: Notes on The Alcestiad; title: Noting the nature of farce; title: Some thoughts on playwriting; title: Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jaakobs Traum; title: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex; title: Foreword to three comedies by Johann Nestroy; title: George Bernard Shaw; title: Shadow of a doubt.