Thornton Wilder One-Act Series: The Ages of Man

Thornton Wilder One-Act Series: The Ages of Man

Thornton Wilder One-Act Series: The Ages of Man

Thornton Wilder One-Act Series: The Ages of Man

Overview

This collection features Thornton Wilder's last plays, a series of short works inspired by the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man.

Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's Ages of Man includes four one-act plays, each capturing an important stage of life:

Infancy
Childhood
Youth
The Rivers Under the Earth

Authors

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Yale and Princeton, was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one ...

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