The Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder: Volume II: Edited By A. Tappan Wilder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilder, Thornton

Contributor:

Wilder, A. Tappan, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dramatists, American.

One-act plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.</div>

Contents:

Contents; Preface by A. Tappan Wilder; Introduction by A.R. Gurney ; Part I THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS AND OTHER PLAYS Three-Minute Plays for Three Persons and The Marriage We Deplore; Foreword by Thornton Wilder; 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 ; Now 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 WatersThe Marriage We Deplore; Part II THE UNERRING INSTINCT A Play In One Act ; Part III ""THE EMPORIUM""; Scenes from ""The Emporium""; Notes Toward ""The Emporium""; Part IV THE ALCESTIAD With Its Satyr Play THE DRUNKEN SISTERS; Foreword by Isabel Wilder; Notes on The Alcestiad ; Some Thoughts on Playwriting by Thornton Wilder; Bibliographic and Production Notes

Notes:

The following plays have been taken from this source: And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead Brother Fire Centaurs Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Fanny Otcott Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job? Leviathan Mozart and the Gray Steward Nascuntur Poetae ... Now the Servant's Name Was Malchus Proserpina and the Devil The Alcestiad: With Its Satyr Play The Drunken Sisters The Angel on the Ship The Angel That Troubled the Waters The Flight into Egypt The Message and Jehanne The Penny That Beauty Spent.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781559368148

1559368144

OCLC:

897069730