Thornton Wilder: Three Plays
Three Plays
Buch
- Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker
- HarperCollins Publishers, 04/2020
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780062971920
- Bestellnummer: 9589980
- Umfang: 464 Seiten
- Gewicht: 318 g
- Maße: 198 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.4.2020
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
?Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.? ?New York TimesFrom celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. This essential compendium includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.
Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed on stages all around the world.
The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's brilliant and enduring romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize in 1943.
The Matchmaker, a dazzling farce about money and love, stars the irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi, who leads young and old on an adventure that changes their lives. It was later adapted into the famed musical Hello, Dolly!
Biografie
Thornton Wilder wurde am 17. April 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin, als Sohn eines Zeitungsverlegers geboren, der als Generalkonsul nach Hongkong und Schanghai ging. Thornton Wilder erhielt für sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, u. a. dreimal den Pulitzer Preis und 1957 in Frankfurt am Main den Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels. Er starb am 7. Dezember 1975 in Hamden, Connecticut. Thornton Wilder
Three Plays
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