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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