Our Town

Our Town Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Mr. Wilder Has an Idea
• Criticism: Our Town (1938)
  • Remarkable Our Town Dispenses Its Wisdom
  • A Striking Production of Our Town
  • Acting Lapses Undercut This Our Town Revival
  • Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary in Our Town
  • Our Town as a Classical Tragedy
  • Three Allegorists: Brecht, Wilder, and Eliot
  • Our Town as a Failed Tragedy
  • Our Town
  • The Charm of Our Town
  • Universality in Our Town
  • Our Town as Allegory
  • Characters in Our Town
  • Is Our Town Really Our Town?
  • Deficiencies in Our Town
  • ‘Preparing the Way for Them’: Wilder and the Next Generations
  • Whose Town Is It, Anyway? A Reconsideration of Thornton Wilder's Our Town
• Further Reading