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      The preface and appendix are copyright © 2016 by A. Tappan Wilder

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      The publication of A Doll’s House by Thornton Wilder, through TCG’s Book Program, is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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      ISBN 978-1-55936-850-6 (ebook)

      Book design and composition by Lisa Govan

      Cover design by Carol Devine Carson

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      First Edition, May 2016

      Contents

Preface

       By A. Tappan Wilder

      A DOLL’S HOUSE

      APPENDIX

      Afterword

       By A. Tappan Wilder

      Note on Sources

      Press Quotes for A Doll’s House, 1937

       Preface

      JUST FIVE WEEKS before the New York premiere of Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s “new acting version” of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opened on Broadway, after a highly successful out-of-town run, with a cast of four major stars led by Ruth Gordon as Nora. Both plays were directed and produced by the legendary Jed Harris, and both productions found enormous success with audiences and critics.

      What then happened to Thornton Wilder’s first hit on Broadway and his most successful translation-adaptation? The play vanished from sight. This first-ever publication of the script, issued alongside its first production since 1937, by Theatre for a New Audience, returns Wilder’s A Doll’s House to life.

      In 1997, at the time of the Thornton Wilder Centenary, Theatre Communications Group issued two volumes composed of Wilder’s published and unpublished one-acts, playlets and miscellaneous dramatic pieces, volumes still very much in print. To the Wilder collection, TCG now adds this third, significant, new title. May its run be as long and exciting.

      Finally, we hope the brief Afterword will satisfy reader curiosity about the story of where Wilder’s first success on The Great White Way came from, how it unfolded before audiences, then disappeared, and is now back “in play.”

      This

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