Our Town

图书信息

作者	Wilder, Thornton
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780062232632
出版时间	2014-03-18
字数	67.1万
分类	Harper Perennial,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

目录

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Donald Margulies

Addendum to the Foreword of the 75th Anniversary Edition

Our Town: A play in three acts

Act I

Act II

Act III

Afterword by Tappan Wilder

Overview

Readings

Pre–Our Town

1. A Wedding: Wilder Encounters a Superstition

2. Life, Death, and Understanding in Wilder’s Earlier Fiction and Drama

Fiction: “Once Upon a Time . . .”

Drama: “Good-by, Emerson Grammar School”

3. Our Town in the Making: Four Drafts

“M Marries N”: The Birth of the Play (1935)

Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, “Latitude 71° 37´, Longitude 42° 40´” (1937)

“Good Night to You All, and Thank You” (1937)

“I’ll Run for Something”: George Gibbs’s Political Aspirations (1938)

4. The Writing of Our Town: Here and Abroad

Our Town on the Boards

5. In Production: Sample Images

The McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey (1938)

The Broadway Program (1938–39)

Two Original Cast Photographs (1938)

6. The Playwright Discusses His Play “Sense of the Whole”

“A Village Against the Life of the Stars”: Our Town’s first Preface

“Take Your Pencil . . .”

7. Wilder vs. Harris: Before and After

Before: Wilder’s Critical Response to Harris’s Directing Choices

After: Wilder’s Notes to Harris Regarding Subsequent Productions of Our Town

Special Features and Legacy

8. Wilder as Actor

9. Wilder as Adviser

10. Wilder Abroad

News from Abroad: Letter to Amos

L’Envoi

11. Final Thoughts: “Value above All Price . . .”

Acknowledgments

Source Material and Subsidiary Works

About the Author

Books by Thornton Wilder

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Copyright

About the Publisher