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Wilson didn't begin what became, ultimately, a tetralogy with the idea of creating a play cycle. He just wanted to write a play set in the late 1970s that reflected in some way the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate letdown much of young America was feeling. But in writing what became the brilliant and moving Fifth of July, Wilson summoned up a world so evocative and rich in history--the world of the eccentric Talley family, leading citizens of little Lebanon, Missouri--that he couldn't help exploring it further. The resultant four-play cycle captures the Talleys' foibles and follies as thoroughly--and as entertainingly--as J. D. Salinger's set of stories and short novels did the Glass family. Wilson goes Salinger one better, perhaps, by setting three plays--Talley's Folly, Talley & Son, and A Tale Toldon the same night, July 4, 1944, in different parts of the Talley estate. Gathering all four plays into the third volume of Wilson's collected plays, the publisher also has Wilson introduce each of them. Jack Helbig

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Each of the four plays in Volume III of Lanford Wilson's Collected Works is introduced by the author.

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