Thornton Wilder Journal Sixth Issue Available

Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover

Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover
Published by Penn State University Press

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.

For more information on the Journal, please visit our Journal page.

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