Pullman Car Hiawatha
Title | Pullman Car Hiawatha PDF eBook |
Author | Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | Samuel French |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | Drama |
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This one-act comedy, set in a Pullman car on a train traveling from New York to Chicago in December, 1930, introduces techniques Wilder would use in future three-act plays. Pullman Car takes us on a metaphorical journey by train through the American landscape, a diverse band of travelers encapsulated in a Pullman car hurtle through time, space and a range of emotions.5 women, 12 men
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Title | Pullman Car Hiawatha PDF eBook |
Author | Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | American drama |
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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition
Title | Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln Konkle |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826264972 |
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
One Act
Title | One Act PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Moon |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780802130532 |
A collection of eleven one-act plays by the major writers of modern drama.
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
Title | The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Grou |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781559361484 |
Volume II of Wilder's collected plays includes "The Angel That Troubled the Waters, Our Century, The Unerring Instinct", and "The Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun", a little-known retelling of an ancient Greek legend.
The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama
Title | The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia R. Schroeder |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838633328 |
This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts with the present in complex and often surprising ways. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Award in Modern Drama.
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
Title | The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Grou |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781559361316 |
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.