Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Teaching Thornton Wilder’s Plays
View through CrossRef
Abstract
This article offers, as one approach to teaching Thornton Wilder’s plays, looking at Wilder’s remarks on the craft of playwriting. These essays, which are not as well-known as his creative works, can also serve to demonstrate for students the qualities which distinguish drama from fiction and poetry. The article also attempts to establish that Wilder is a far more complex and ambivalent playwright than the purveyor of a Norman Rockwell-like pollyannaish vision for which he is often criticized.
Title: Teaching Thornton Wilder’s Plays
Description:
Abstract
This article offers, as one approach to teaching Thornton Wilder’s plays, looking at Wilder’s remarks on the craft of playwriting.
These essays, which are not as well-known as his creative works, can also serve to demonstrate for students the qualities which distinguish drama from fiction and poetry.
The article also attempts to establish that Wilder is a far more complex and ambivalent playwright than the purveyor of a Norman Rockwell-like pollyannaish vision for which he is often criticized.
Related Results
Thornton Wilder—A Musical Memoir
Thornton Wilder—A Musical Memoir
Abstract
In this article, composer/musician Mabel Daniels reminisces on her long friendship with Thornton Wilder. She recounts their memorable meetings at the Mac...
Reclaiming the Wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the Historical Perception and Construction of Indigenous Knowledges in Australian Cinema
Reclaiming the Wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the Historical Perception and Construction of Indigenous Knowledges in Australian Cinema
It was always based on a teenage love story between the two kids. One is a sniffer and one is not. It was designed for Central Australia because we do write these kids off there. N...
Thornton Wilder: At Home in the Southwest
Thornton Wilder: At Home in the Southwest
Abstract
Thornton Wilder is regarded by most as a New Englander, with a house in Hamden, Connecticut, built with early proceeds from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and ...
Thornton Wilder: Why Here? Why Now?
Thornton Wilder: Why Here? Why Now?
Abstract
This article explores the relevance and vitality of Wilder’s works to contemporary audiences of 2011. It establishes four criteria—breadth, depth, heat, and...
Thornton Wilder as Thaumaturge
Thornton Wilder as Thaumaturge
AbstractInfluenced by his religious upbringing and classical education, Thornton Wilder wrote about the universal and the particular simultaneously, which contrasts with most moder...
Dorothy and Professor Wilder
Dorothy and Professor Wilder
Abstract
Dorothy Ulrich was Thornton Wilder’s student at the University of Chicago in 1934. Subsequently, they became lifelong friends, as evidenced in the letters W...
Thornton Wilder’s Correspondence with Bob Burns
Thornton Wilder’s Correspondence with Bob Burns
Abstract
This article publishes for the first time five letters that Thornton Wilder sent to Robert “Bob” Wiygul Burns in 1945–46. Wilder met Burns in Miami Beach, F...
Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder
The music of Alec Wilder (1907–1980) blends several American musical traditions, such as jazz and the American popular song, with classical European forms and techniques. Stylish a...