The seventh issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal (volume 4, issue 1) 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:
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Editors’ Note
Articles
A Sapphic Ode by Thornton Wilder: A Previously Unpublished Playlet by David Roessel and Eva Leaverton
Ancient Greece and 1920s America: A New Historicist Approach to Thornton Wilder’s The Woman of Andros by Alyssa Sedacca
Women and Literature in Thornton Wilder’s The Ides of March by Paolo Simonetti
Literary Attacks on Thornton Wilder by Stephen J. Rojcewicz Jr.
Thornton Wilder on Inculturation by John P. Mcintyre, SJ
Trumpet: Revisiting and Reimagining Thornton Wilder’s The Trumpet Shall Sound by Jill Savege Scharff
Performance Reviews
Our Town, Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland by Chelsea Mayo
The Skin of our Teeth, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Nyack, New York by Nina Haberli
Our Town, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado by Brenton Kyle
Our Town, Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, New York by Eric Sterbenk
For more information on the Journal, please visit our Journal page.
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