Thornton Wilder Journal Third Issue Available

Thornton Wilder Journal Issue 1 Cover

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

The third 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:

Editors’ Note

Articles

Wonder at the Everyday: Thornton Wilder, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Webb by Stephen J. Rojcewicz

Dorothy and Professor Wilder: From University of Chicago Student to Lifelong Friend by Sergei Troubetzkoy

“Directing the Director”: Wilder on The Skin of Our Teeth—A New Letter by Terryl W. Hallquist

Biographer’s Gold: Louise Talma, Thornton Wilder, and Their Opera, The Alcestiad by Sarah B. Dorsey

In Defense of Horace Vandergelder: A Historicist Reading of The Matchmaker by Charles Martocello

Performance Reviews

Our Town, Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane, Australia by Madelyn Coupe

Wir sind noch einmal davon gekommen/The Skin of Our Teeth by Thomas Irmer

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