{"product_id":"thornton-wilders-the-skin-of-kyle-gillette-9781138185623","title":"Thornton Wilder's the Skin of Our Teeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to play this particular scene tonight.\" - Sabina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThornton Wilder's \u003ci\u003eThe Skin of Our Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e (1942)\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003etelescopes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyle 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 metatheatrics 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillette magnifies the play's ideas and connections, teasing out historical, theoretical and philosophical questions on behalf of readers, scholars and audience members alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kyle Gillette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138185620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138185623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.70h x 4.70w x 0.40d","brand":"Kyle Gillette","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057108742399,"sku":"9781138185623","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29179b78-6063-4a60-a708-c45a3809e8c4.jpg?v=1685045082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thornton-wilders-the-skin-of-kyle-gillette-9781138185623","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}