Thornton Wilder Journal Seventh Issue Available

Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover

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

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A Sapphic Ode by Thornton Wilder: A Previously Unpublished Playlet by David Roessel and Eva Leaverton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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