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The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

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The Skin of Our Teeth Quotes
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The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) is a play by Thornton Wilder . Act One In the midst of life we are in the midst of death. Inscribed on the wall And my advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your...


Author Biography

Name: Thornton Niven Wilder
Birth Date: April 17, 1897
Death Date: December 7, 1975
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Death: Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright, novelist

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Biography of Thornton Niven Wilder
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Novelist and playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) won two Pulitzer Prizes for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, written in 1938 and 1942 respectively. His most renowned novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, also accorded him a Pulitzer P...
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Biography of Thornton (Niven) Wilder
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Thornton Wilder, the only writer to receive Pulitzer Prizes for both plays and a novel, once observed, "I guess I was the only writer of my generation who didn't 'go to Paris!'" For him the road abroad led to Rome, which he first visited in the summer of...
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Biography of Thornton (Niven) Wilder
14650 words, approx. 48.8 pages
Thornton Wilder was a student of the human condition; in his writing he aimed for and achieved the universal. His plays in particular were concerned with both the timely and the timeless, and he most distinguished himself in the theater, although his fir...
 


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The Skin of Our Teeth Information
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The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play by Thornton Wilder. It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942. It was produced...


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The New York Observer
Obama to Deliver Major Foreign Policy Address
4/16/2007: 745 words, approx. 3 pages
Barack Obama is planning to deliver an important foreign policy speech on Tuesday, aides to Obama just told me. The speech is going to be billed as a comprehensive, substantive proposal for improving American's damaged international standing and fortifying its security by dealing more proactively...
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The New York Observer
Loving Tribute to Kazan Nearly Derailed by Politics
12/25/2005: 1,965 words, approx. 7 pages
One day while still a young actor, Elia Kazan was standing on a street corner with his good friend, Martin Ritt, another young actor. Across the street were two pretty young women. Ritt suggested that he and Kazan go over and talk to them. “No...
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The New York Observer
Loving Tribute to Kazan Nearly Derailed by Politics
12/25/2005: 1,965 words, approx. 7 pages
One day while still a young actor, Elia Kazan was standing on a street corner with his good friend, Martin Ritt, another young actor. Across the street were two pretty young women. Ritt suggested that he and Kazan go over and talk to them. “No...
 


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Critical Essay by David Mayer
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When The Skin of Our Teeth first appeared in 1942, Wilder deservedly won a Pulitzer Prize for a play that stepped into what is pretentiously called the 'epistemological dimension', that area where are made to challenge our own unspoken assumptions and conventions for viewing and interpreting theatre. Did we believe, he asked, that what happens onstage must duplicate the everyday tangible world, that the proscenium arch is a keyhole through which we peep and overhear real people? Simultaneous t...
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Critical Essay by Eric Shorter
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[Was Wilder serious] when he wrote The Skin of our Teeth thirty-five years' ago? It still gives off an endearing skittishness, though one suspects that the author of this 'history of mankind in comic strip' was being more serious than he dared to let on with his theme of mothers stabilising man's inherent waywardness and lust making the world go round. Whatever he meant,… [this boisterously facetious parable reminds us] how such a play, because of its fundamental thoughtfu...


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