Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover
Published by Penn State University Press
The second issue of the Thornton Wilder Journal is available from Penn State University Press. This biannual 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 of the second issue:
iv Dedication: A. TAPPAN WILDER
vi Editors’ Note
Articles
131 Friedrich Nietzsche Explains the Popularity of Our Town by Nancy Bunge
144 Thornton Wilder: At Home in the Southwest by Ann Caldwell
162 “That’s What It Was To Be Alive”: A Social Gospel Reading of Our Town by Jamall A. Calloway
182 Teaching Our Town Through a Dramaturgical Lens by Ashley Raven
195 Recent Thornton Wilder Scholarship: 2016–2020 by Wesley Longacre
Performance Reviews
209 Our Town, Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, Georgia. Reviewed by Michael Evenden
216 The Skin of Our Teeth, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, California. Reviewed by Jenna Tamimi
222 Our Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London, United Kingdom. Reviewed by Laura MacDonald
228 Our Town, People’s Light, Malvern, Pennsylvania. Reviewed by Gabriel Nathan
231 The Seven Deadly Sins, Modern Theatre, Suffolk University, Boston,
Massachusetts. Reviewed by Joshua E. Polster
For more information on the Journal, please visit our Journal page.
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