Thornton Wilder Journal Eighth Issue Available

Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover

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

The eighth issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal (volume 4, 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:

The Thornton Wilder Society

Editors’ Note

Articles

Thornton Wilder: Why Here? Why Now? by Emilio DeGrazia

Responses to DeGrazia by Susan C. W. Abbotson, Christopher Benfey, Michael Y. Bennett, Hansong Dan, George Drance, Thierry Dubost, William Grange, David Greenspan, Noah Haidle, Stuart J. Hecht, Laurie McCants, Shannon A. Mullen, Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr., Julie Vatain-Corfdir, Howard R. Wolf

The Uncoupling of Humanity Aboard the Pullman Car Hiawatha by Troy Coleman

The Last Yeoman: An American Historicist Reading of Act 1 of The Skin of Our Teeth by Charles Martocello

Recent Thornton Wilder Research and Scholarship by Bonnie Georgette Hamlett

Book Review

Tom Lake by Terryl W. Hallquist

Performance Reviews

Lunar Eclipse, by Donald Margulies, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts by Haas Regen

Our Town, American Players Theatre, Spring Green, Wisconsin by Joshua Kelly

Our Town, Pendragon Theatre, Saranac Lake, New York by Shawna Mefferd Kelty

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

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