Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) (Library of America Thornton Wilder Edition) Book Information:

ys and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilders work ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, such as The Long Christmas Dinner and The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (one of Wilders personal favorites), ranging through the full flowering ofOur Town,The Skin of Our Teeth, andThe Matchmaker, and encompassing the intriguing dramatic projects of his later years, such as his adaptation of the ancient story of Alcestis (The Alcestiad) and plays written for dramatic cycles based on the Seven Deadly Sins and the varied ages of an individuals life. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that captures Wilders reflections on his plays and contains a revealing epistolary account of the film adaptation ofOur Town.This volume also includes material never before published: scenes fromThe Emporium, an ambitious unfinished play that, emerging out of Wilders intense engagement with existentialist philosophy in the postwar years, imagines a Kafkaesque department store whose enigmatic activities are as inscrutable as the mysteries of life itself; and the complete screenplay Wilder wrote for Alfred Hitchcocks filmShadow of a Doubtjust before reporting for military service in 1942. Although faithful to the spirit of the film, the screenplay presented here restores Wilders original dialogue, some of which (to Wilders dismay) was altered for the movie. A study of family life, youthful illusions, and the desperation of a criminal on the run, theShadow of a Doubtscreenplay is a masterful exhibition of the art of suspense and taut dramatic storytelling, and is an essential part of Wilders oeuvre.LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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