The fourth issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal is available from Penn State University Press. This biannual publication offers new scholarly articles about Wilder’s works and life, as well as reviews of significant productions of his plays. Here is the table of contents of the second issue:
Editors’ Note
The Thornton Wilder Society
Articles
Shadows of Doubt: Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock’s America at War by Danny Alexander
Selected Italian Introductions to Works by Thornton Wilder by Dianna Pickens
The Rivers Under the Earth: Wilder’s Psychoanalytic Primer for the Stage by Lincoln Konkle
A Shared Space: Metatheatricality in Wilder’s Unfinished Play The Emporium by Bonnie Georgette Hamlett
Italy, Dada, and Prosceniums: Recent Thornton Wilder Research and Scholarship by Wesley Longacre
Book Review
Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century by Mark Bly
Performance Reviews
Our Town, Classic Theatre of San Antonio, Texas by John O’Neill
The Seven Deadly Sins, Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Park Bucker
The Alcestiad, Magis Theatre Company, New York, New York by Jerise Fogel and Haas Regen
The Skin of Our Teeth, Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Sarah Helsley
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