| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Fourth Wall |
| Contents |
Part I Metatheatre -- 1 Metatheatre and failure -- 2 Metatheatre and modernism -- Part II Metahistory -- 3 Metahistory and myth -- 4 Metahistory and myopia -- Part III Metaphysics -- 5 Metaphysics on parade -- 6 Metaphysics and the end of history |
| Summary |
"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 meta theatrics 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Skin of our teeth
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 -- Technique
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 -- Themes, motives
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 fast |
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Skin of our teeth (Wilder, Thornton) fast |
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Theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Play within a play.
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History in literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Playwriting.
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History in literature
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Play within a play
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Technique
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Theater
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Themes, motives
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317288734 |
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9781317288732 |
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