The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume Two (Hardcover)
by Thornton Wilder

Name: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume Two (Hardcover)
Brand: Thornton Wilder
SKU: 9781559361484
Rating: 3.9 (33 reviews)

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What readers are saying

Readers appreciate Thornton Wilder's exploration of simple yet profound themes in his plays. However, opinions vary on the collection's organization and the quality of some short pieces. While one reader adores the poetic nature of Wilder's language, another finds the second volume less cohesive than the first.

Powerful use of simple languageDeep emotional themesEngaging and thought-provokingMixed quality in short plays

Synopsis

Volume Two of Thornton Wilder's collected short plays, which makes available again the author’s long out-of-print first collection of one-acts, The Angel That Troubled the Waters, along with two previously unpublished plays—The Unerring Instinct and The Marriage We Deplore.

This volume also brings back into print one of Wilder’s most remarkable and least-known full-length plays, The Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun, an inventive retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Alcestis, who gave her life for her husband Admetus and was brought back from hell by Hercules.

The volume is rounded out by Wilder’s exemplary essay, “Some Thoughts on Playwriting.”

Edited by Donald Gallup and A. Tappan Wilder, Preface by A.R.

Gurney