| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
2 volumes : portrait ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Vol. 1: Preface / A. Tappan Wilder -- Introduction / John Guare -- Long Christmas dinner and other plays in one act: Long Christmas dinner ; Queens of France ; Pullman car Hiawatha ; Love and how to cure it ; Such things only happen in books ; Happy journey to Trenton and Camden -- Plays for Bleecker Street (plays in one act for an arena stage): Introductory note / Donald Gallup ; Seven deadly sins ; Drunken sisters ; Bernice ; Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five ; Ringing of doorbells ; In Shakespeare and the Bible ; Someone from Assisi ; Cement hands ; Seven ages of man ; Infancy ; Childhood ; Youth ; Rivers under the earth ; Two worlds of Thornton Wilder / John Gassner. |
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Vol. 2: Preface / A. Tappan Wilder -- Introduction / A.R. Gurney -- Angel that troubled the waters and other plays, Three-minute plays for three persons, and The marriage we deplore ; Foreword / Thornton Wilder ; Nascuntur Poetae ; Proserpina and the Devil ; Fanny Otcott ; Brother fire ; Penny that beauty spent ; Angel on the ship ; 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? ; Flight into Egypt ; Angel that trouble the waters ; Marriage we deplore -- Unerring instinct: Play in one act -- Emporium: Scenes from The emporium ; Notes toward The emporium -- Alcestiad ; With its satyr play ; Drunken sisters -- Foreward / Isabel Wilder -- Notes on The alcestiad / Thornton Wilder ; Alcestiad : transition from The alcestiad to The drunken sisters ; Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Volume Two of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Now available once more here is the author's long out-of-print first collection of one-acts, The Angel that troubled Tthe waters, along with three occasional plays, two of them previously unpublished, and Wilder's full-length play, The Alcestiad, or a Life in the sun. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Drama.
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Theater.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
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Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
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| Added Author |
Gallup, Donald, 1913-2000.
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Wilder, A. Tappan.
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| Added Title |
Plays. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Plays. Selections. Collected short plays of Thornton Wilder. 1st ed. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1997-©1998 (OCoLC)645868606 |
| ISBN |
1559361387 (v. 1 ; alk. paper) |
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9781559361385 (v. 1 ; alk. paper) |
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155936131X (v. 1 ; pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781559361316 (v. 1 ; pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1559361492 (v. 2 ; alk. paper) |
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9781559361491 (v. 2 ; alk. paper) |
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1559361484 (v. 2 ; pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781559361484 (v. 2 ; pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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