Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, is born

“Our Town,” Pulitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder, is performed for the first time

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  Thornton Wilder's "Our Town": The Reader as Writer

  To appreciate some of the extra-literary elements of a play, students pause at various intervals in their study of Thornton Wilder's Our Town to develop their own settings, characters, and conflicts.

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