
Our Town and Other Plays
by Thornton Wilder
Title:
Our Town and Other Plays
Author:
Thornton Wilder
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780141184586
EAN:
9780141184586
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
308
Dimensions (mm):
195 x 127 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way, and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich, full life.























