1st Edition

Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth

By Kyle Gillette Copyright 2016
96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

"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... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: Metatheatre

Chapter Two: Metahistory

Chapter Three: Metaphysics

Biography

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