The sixth issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal (volume 3, issue 2) is available from Penn State University Press. This 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
“Pay Attention!” Thornton Wilder’s Correspondence with Timothy Findley: A Literary Friendship by Sherrill Grace
Heaven’s My Destination: Thornton Wilder, Artifice, and Camp by Grace Vowels
The Skin of Our Teeth and New Jersey: A Historicist Reading of Wilder’s Use of Setting by Charles Martocello
Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner and Broadway’s Birthday Candles: Interviews with Playwright Noah Haidle and Director Vivienne Benesch by Haas Regen
The Emporium, Adapted and Completed: An Interim Report by Jeffrey Ullom
Recent Thornton Wilder Research and Scholarship by Wesley Longacre
Book Reviews
The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr.
Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature by Anne Mahoney
Performance Reviews
Our Town, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Sarasota, Florida by Joseph R. D’Ambrosi
The Skin of Our Teeth, Lincoln Center, New York, New York by Shoshana Greenberg
Our Town, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Lincoln, Nebraska by William Grange
Our Town, Center Repertory Company, Walnut Grove, California by Michael Socrates Moran
Our Town, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California by Julie Sharbutt
Our Town, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC by Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr.
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