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The Drunken Sisters is Wilder's satyr play that followed The Alcestiad, his adaptation of the ancient Greek "Alcestis" story. Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man's life, and here in disguise he tricks the sisters into releasing their death hold on King Admetus. His trick: 3 flagons of wine which he declares to be Aphrodite's beauty drink but which make the sisters drunk. He then foils ...

A mother-daughter team of con-artists are putting the touch on the widows of military brass. Mrs. McCullem, housekeep for the wonderfully regal but now wheel chair-bound window of General Beattie, recognizes them in the drug store--having witnessed the two pull their game on her previous employer--and overhears them asking directions to the Beattie home! The play begins as she rushes back to warn Mrs. Beattie of the impending danger. Sure enou...

The year is 1898 and the place is an over-sumptuous parlor in New York. Mrs. Mowbrey, a mature, wealthy woman with a history to bury, makes a plan--she'll befriend her estranged niece and fiancé, and their subsequent marriage will provide her own entre into respectable society. Or at least, that's what she tells the young couple. In Shakespeare and the Bible uncovers a mystery inside a melodrama inside a meeting. Mrs. Mowbrey invites her niece...

This play is thought to represent middle-age, in Wilder's unfinished cycle of The Ages of Man. On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin, the Carter family enjoys a summer's eve. It's an evening like many others: Nothing happens and everything happens. Each member of the family - sixteen year-old Tom, his seventeen-year-old sister Francesca and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carter - shares different memories somehow connected ...

In this play, which represents "Sloth" in Wilder's projected cycle on The Seven Deadly Sins, Herb Hawkins, a jovial New Jersey - New York City commuter with iron-bound habits, has called to say he is coming home late. This news sets his wife and daughter on edge, a condition heightened when a neighbor informs them that an unidentified man is hiding in the shadows of their front lawn, staring in at them. The police arrive to arrest the supposed...

Diana Colvin, 21, rich and "the finest girl in the world, " is engaged to marry Roger Osterman, 27, very rich and "the finest young fellow in the world." With the help of a mystified waiter, Diana's uncle (her lawyer and guardian) sets up a play within a play to make sure Diana knows what she is getting into: marriage to a supreme tightwad who can give away millions to charity, but can't leave a tip. The action--full of high-jinks as well as a...

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Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5, 000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain), and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of char...

Thornton Wilders Roman >Die Cabala< schildert die Begegnung eines jungen Amerikaners mit einem Kreis seltsamer junger Leute in Rom - Menschen, die wie Götter leben. Dem nüchternen jungen Mann ist diese Gesellschaft verdächtig, ein letztes Geheimnis, das er nicht enträtseln kann, beunruhigt ihn. Als er fragt, lautet die Antwort: »Die Götter der Antike sind nicht gestorben beim Aufkommen des Christentums, sie verloren nur ihre göttlichen Attri...

Thornton Wilders >Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren< ist ein Roman über die Tragik und die Komik unseres Lebens, eine satirische Spiegelung der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft der 1930er-Jahre. Eigentlich ist George Marvin Brush ein ganz gewöhnlicher Handlungsreisender, der Schulbücher verkauft. Doch wichtiger als seine Schulbücher sind ihm die Seelen seiner Mitmenschen. Seine Irrfahrten im Mittelwesten der USA führen zu einer Fülle tragischer un...

>Die Iden des März< - Thornton Wilders erzählerisches Hauptwerk über die letzten Tage der Römischen Republik unter Julius Caesar In diesem großen Roman um Leben und Sterben von Julius Caesar zeichnet sich sinnlich prägnante Antike ohne den Staub des Musealen ab - als eine Welt aus Schönheit und Macht, Größe und Verrat. Nicht gefunden, sonder erfunden wurden die Dokumente dieses sozusagen historischen Romans, der, nach Wort und Willen des Aut...

Nel 1714 il ponte di San Luis Rey, che per oltre un secolo è stato la più importante via di collegamento per gli abitanti di Lima e Cuzco, crolla improvvisamente, provocando la morte di cinque persone. Un frate che si accingeva ad attraversarlo rimane sconvolto dalla tragedia e inizia a porsi delle domande che assumono sempre più un carattere morale e religioso: si è trattato di una terribile fatalità o di un disegno divino? Chi erano quei cin...

Premio Pulitzer 1938, "Our Town" è un viaggio introspettivo nella vita di ciascuno di noi. I personaggi, simboli dell'umanità più che individui, ci conducono, tramite l'onniscente Direttore di scena, a Grover's Corners, cittadina del New Hampshire, simbolo anch'essa dell'intero universo. "La vita che capita una volta sola, il suo flusso quotidiano in tempo reale, e guanto impossibile sia notarla, goderla e ricordarla, mentre si sta vivendo.

Now, for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, hilarious play, which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, with an afterword by Tappan WilderHorace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers, decides it’s time to take a wife and hires a matchmaker. But Dolly Gallagher Levi is no ordinary matchmaker. She’s a force of nature, with a plan of her own. Levi soon becomes embroiled in t...

Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: NarrativaJohn Ashley ha escapado durante el trayecto en tren que lo conducía hacia su ejecución por el asesinato de su mejor amigo. Nadie conoce su paradero o la identidad de las personas que organizaron la fuga. Detrás quedan dos familias destrozadas, que deberán aprender a abrirse camino, y un sinfín de preguntas sobre las que orbita aquella referida a la autoría del propio crimen. El octavo día, galardonad...

Among these plays [Wilder's most famous one-acts] we encounter a first glimpse of Wilder's Stage Manager, his use of pantomime, minimal scenery and farce, as well as his signature connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of the human experience"--P. [4] of cover.

The drunken sisters. Apollo challenges The Three Fates to a life-and-death battle of wits, but despite their taste for liquor, the sisters win the wager.

First produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim, this is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners. It is an allegorical representation of all life.

Ein Klassiker des modernen amerikanischen Theaters, ein Stück, in dem es vordergründig nur um das alltägliche Leben alltäglicher Menschen geht - und, nach Wilders eigenem Bekunden, dennoch um die Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Thornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975) American writer and playwright, best known for OUR TOWN (1938) and THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism.