Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth by Gillette, Kyle

Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to play this particular scene tonight." - SabinaThornton Wilder's The Skin...
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Author: Kyle Gillette
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Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth by Gillette, Kyle

Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth

$33.85

Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth

$33.85
Author: Kyle Gillette
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to play this particular scene tonight." - Sabina

Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an audacious stretch of western history and mythology into a family drama, showing how the course of human events operates like theatre itself: constantly mutable, vanishing and beginning again.

Kyle Gillette explores Wilder's extraordinary play in three parts. Part I unpacks the play's singular yet deeply interconnected place in theatre history, comparing its metatheatrics to those of Stein, Pirandello and Brecht, and finding its anticipation of American fantasias in the works of Vogel and Kushner. Part II turns to the play's many historic and mythic sources, and examines its concentration of western progress and power into the model of a white, American upper-middle-class nuclear family. Part III takes a longer view, tangling with the play's philosophical stakes.

Gillette magnifies the play's ideas and connections, teasing out historical, theoretical and philosophical questions on behalf of readers, scholars and audience members alike.



Author: Kyle Gillette
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/15/2016
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781138185623

About the Author

Kyle Gillette is Associate Professor and Director of Theatre at Trinity University San Antonio.




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