Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater
Major works:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey • Our Town • The Skin of Our Teeth • The Ides of March • The Eighth Day
“Wilder is a novelist of morals. . . . They are answers found by individuals to the old problems of faith, hope, charity or love, art, duty, submission to one’s fate . . . and hence they are relatively universal; they can be illustrated from the lives of any individuals, in any place, at any time since the beginning of time. . . . The characters in Wilder’s novels and plays are looking for such answers.”—Malcolm Cowley
Seeing the totality of this great American playwright’s dizzyingly, dazzlingly wide range of work will be especially revelatory for a new generation of playwrights.”—John Guare
“While all of Wilder’s work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American.”—Edward Albee
The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
Nascuntur Poetae
Proserpina and the Devil
Fanny Otcott
Brother Fire
The Penny That Beauty Spent
The Angel on the Ship
The Message and Jehanne
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Centaurs
Leviathan
And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead
The Servant’s Name Was Malchus
Mozart and the Gray Steward
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?
The Flight Into Egypt
The Angel That Troubled the Waters
The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays In One Act
The Long Christmas Dinner
Queens of France
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Love and How to Cure It
Such Things Only Happen in Books
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
Our Town
The Skin Of Our Teeth
The Matchmaker
The Alcestiad
The Drunken Sisters
Uncollected Plays
The Marriage We Deplore
The Unerring Instinct
Scenes from The Emporium
Plays for Bleecker Street
The Seven Deadly Sins
Bernice
The Wreck of the Five-Twenty-Five
A Ringing of Doorbells
In Shakespeare and the Bible
Someone from Assisi
Cement Hands
The Seven Ages of Man:
Infancy
Childhood
Youth
The Rivers Under the Earth
Writings on Theater
Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
Notes for the Producer: The Long Christmas Dinner
Notes for the Producer: The Happy Journey
A Preface for Our Town
Our Town: Story of the Play
Our Town: Some Suggestions for the Director
Our Town—From Stage to Screen: A correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Sol Lesser
Preface to Three Plays
Notes on The Alcestiad
Noting the Nature of Farce
Some Thoughts on Playwriting
Richard Beer-Hofmann’s Jaakobs Traum
Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex
Foreword to Three Comedies by Johann Nestroy
Shadow Of A Doubt