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Tables of Contents for The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
A. Tappan Wilder
Introduction
xv
A. R. Gurney
Part I THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS AND OTHER PLAYS
Three-Minute Plays for Three Persons and The Marriage We Deplore
1
86
Foreword
3
84
Thornton Wilder
Nascuntur Poetae...
9
4
Proserpina and the Devil
13
3
Fanny Otcott
16
5
Brother Fire
21
4
The Penny That Beauty Spent
25
4
The Angel on the Ship
29
4
The Message and Jehanne
33
3
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
36
4
Centaurs
40
4
Leviathan
44
5
And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead
49
4
Now the Servant's Name Was Malchus
53
4
Mozart and the Gray Steward
57
6
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?
63
4
The Flight into Egypt
67
4
The Angel That Troubled the Waters
71
6
The Marriage We Deplore
77
10
Part II THE UNERRING INSTINCT
A Play in One Act
87
12
Part III ``THE EMPORIUM''
99
52
Scenes from ``The Emporium''
101
22
Notes Toward ``The Emporium''
123
28
Part IV THE ALCESTIAD
151
122
With Its Satyr Play The Drunken Sisters
Foreword
153
14
Isbel Wilder
Notes on The Alcestiad
167
92
Thornton Wilder
The Alcestiad
171
72
Transition from The Alcestiad to The Drunken Sisters
243
4
The Drunken Sisters
247
12
Some Thoughts on Playwriting
259
14
Thornton Wilder
Bibliographic and Production Notes
273