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    Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town
    Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town
    Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town

    By Raja Sharma

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    Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

    But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

    I would strongly advise all the students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

    All the best.

    Raja Sharma

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateMay 21, 2012
    ISBN9781476143927
    Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

      Ready Reference Treatise: Our Town

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter 1: Introduction Our Town

      As the title suggests, Our Town is the play about a small American town. It is a three act play written by Thornton Wilder. The story of the play is based on every day activities of the people living in the early twentieth century town in America.

      The playwright has made a very good use of metatheatrical devices. Thornton Wilder has set the play in a 1930s theatre controlled by the Stage Manager on stage. The actions of the Stage Manager are used to create the town of Grover’s Corner for the audiences present in the theatre to view the play. The scenes of the town’s history from the year 1901 to 1913 are shown to the audiences with the directions and actions given by the Stage Manager.

      While writing the play, Our Town, Thornton Wilder was in his 30s, a young aspiring American playwright. In those days he used to live in the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He did most of the work on the play there, though there were several other locations where he worked on the play. During a visit to Zürich in September 1937, he drafted the entire third act in one day after a long evening walk in the rain with a friend, author Samuel Morris Steward.

      The first performance of the play Our Town took place at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey on 22nd of January, 1938. After that, the play was performed at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts on the 25th of January, 1938. Both these performances were highly appreciated and positive reviews were presented by the contemporary reviewers and critics. Its New York City debut was on February 4, 1938 at Henry Miller's Theatre, and later moved to the Morosco Theatre. The play was produced and directed by Jed Harris. Wilder received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 for the work. In 1946, the Soviet Union prevented a production of Our Town in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.

      Chapter 2: Characters

      Main characters

      Stage

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