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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459605003321

Autore

Wilder Thornton

Titolo

The collected short plays of Thornton Wilder . Volume II / / edited by A. Tappan Wilder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Theatre Communications Group, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-55936-814-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

812.5408

Soggetti

American drama - 20th century

American drama

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface by A. Tappan Wilder; Introduction by A.R. Gurney ; Part I THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS AND OTHER PLAYS Three-Minute Plays for Three Persons and The Marriage We Deplore; Foreword by Thornton Wilder; Nascuntur Poetae ...; Proserpina and the Devil; Fanny Otcott; Brother Fire; The Penny That Beauty Spent; The Angel on the Ship; The Message and Jehanne; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ; Centaurs; Leviathan; And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead ; Now the Servant's Name Was Malchus; Mozart and the Gray Steward; Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job? ; The Flight into Egypt

The Angel That Troubled the WatersThe Marriage We Deplore; Part II THE UNERRING INSTINCT A Play In One Act ; Part III ""THE EMPORIUM""; Scenes from ""The Emporium""; Notes Toward ""The Emporium""; Part IV THE ALCESTIAD With Its Satyr Play THE DRUNKEN SISTERS; Foreword by Isabel Wilder; Notes on The Alcestiad ; Some Thoughts on Playwriting by Thornton Wilder; Bibliographic and Production Notes

Sommario/riassunto

<div>The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.</div>