Our Town by Thornton Wilder | Resources

Our Town Further Reading

Ballet, Arthur H. "In Our Living and In Our Dying" m English Journal, Vol XLV, no. 5, May, 1956, pp. 243-49
In this essay, Ballet considers Our Town in terms of its affinity with classical tragedy.

Brown, John Mason "Wilder's 'Our Town"' in his Dramatis Personae; A Retrospective Show, Viking, 1963, pp 79-84

A highly respected drama critic and editor for the Saturday Review during the 1940s, Brown wrote several critical studies of the American theater. In this assessment of Our Town, written m 1938 and later included in his Dramatis Personae (1963), he supports Wilder's rejection of contemporary political and social issues while praising his portrayal of such fundamental human concerns as death, loVe, and the passage of time.

Discovering Authors: Modules, Gale, 1996

A CD-ROM and online publication that contains biographical and critical information for Thornton Wilder (and hundreds of other authors). Particularly useful...
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