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1938 play by thornton wilder7/2/2023 It was a reflection of the Greek sense of proportion that after those hours of horror and awe this afterpiece should be written in the comic spirit and should deal with some element in the plots of the preceding trilogy. The rules of the festivals required that the poets furnish an afterpiece called the satyr play. The tragic poets of Greece did not merely have to submit three interrelated tragedies for a single morning’s performance. CHILDHOOD is the second in a cycle of one-act plays devoted to the Seven Ages of Man. Wilder, to the delight of his audience, read this new play, taking each of the parts with inimitable enthusiasm. After the award by the president of the association, James Johnson Sweeney, Mr. , THORNTON WILDER last summer became the first recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal. At the MacDowell Colony, where he had done much of his writing
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