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A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
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Arthur Miller,Arthur Miller
A collection of Arthur Miller’s thoughts on theatre, politics and society spanning some 25 years. It includes 23 interviews which illustrate Miller’s developing view on the theatre, the nature of…
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Andrew Norman
Biography of US playwright Arthur Miller.
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Among the twentieth century’s greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller is recognized today as a formative influence on modern American drama. His best plays seamlessly combine the psychological and the social to…
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Arthur Miller
This comprehensive volume brings together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time: Arthur Miller.
Arranged chronologically from 1944 to 2000, these writings…
Ciaran Leinster
This book takes a fresh approach to the work of Arthur Miller, focusing on his lesser-known plays and essays to argue that his writing aligned with and was influenced by…
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Arthur Miller’s extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life.
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Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it’s a privilege to take in his wife’s cousins, Marco…
The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the ‘frontier mentality’ of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded…
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A View from the Bridge is the story of Eddie Carbone and his tragic betrayal of his community’s moral code. This definitive critical edition of the play features a comprehensive…
In Joe and Kate Keller’s family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a…
The greatest American dramatist of our age. (Evening Standard)
In this collected works, five of Arthur Miller’s most-produced and popular plays are brought together in a new edition, alongside an…
The Crucible is Miller’s classic dramatisation of the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of Salem in 1692. This definitive critical edition of the play features a comprehensive…
Neil Carson
Following Miller’s death in 2005, this fully revised, expanded and updated new edition examines the playwright’s career as a whole. All the plays are now discussed, along with his non-dramatic…
Christopher Bigsby
Bigsby’s gripping, meticulously researched biography of one of the 20th century’s greatest playwrights examines Miller’s refusal to name names before the House on Un-American Activities Committee, offers new insights into…
Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).
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Richard Andersen
In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious…
Following Arthur Miller’s death in February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the twentieth century. This book contains reflections…
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Anika Kehl
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Lost in Literature, language: English, abstract…
Containing essays about the play, this literary guide features a bibliography and notes on the essay contributors.
Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interview is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with a…
Containing in full Miller’s masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, this collection comprises 60 years of writing from America’s greatest living playwright.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
This screenplay is Miller’s own adaption of his 20th century classic play about the Salem witch trials of 1692. The book includes twenty stills from the Twentieth Century Fox film…
Arthur H Miller, Bruce E Gronbeck
This volume explores a central political paradox: why American scholars, journalists, and citizens periodically question the viability of their presidential electoral system and yet believe that presidential elections are our…
Professor Peter L. Hays,Kent Nicholson
Provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play. This work gives students an overview of the background and context; detailed analysis of the play’s structure, style, characters; and an overview…
Offering coverage of a range of key plays throughout modern drama, this guides include accounts of performance history, production analysis, screen adaptations and summaries of important critical approaches and debates…
The final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as "the greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard).
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"The greatest American dramatist of our age" Evening Standard
This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early nineties: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993)…
Susan C. W. Abbotson
Guides the reader through the life and work, as well as eight major plays of one of America’s foremost playwrights, Arthur Miller.
Responding directly to the era of U.S. politics known as McCarthyism, Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible positions the Salem witch trials at the center of a narrative that seeks…
Presents roughly sixty years’ worth of Arthur Miller scholarship, offering a range of interpretations and critical responses to the playwright’s work.
Christopher Bigsby’s masterful two-volume biography of Arthur Miller sheds new light on one of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed literary figures. Enriched by the biographer’s uncommon access to Miller and…
Iain Sinclair
Insight Text Guide for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
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Offers an inquiry into the meaning of American Dream. This play which won the author a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony award presents the lead character, Willy Loman (played over…
"Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what they do. This is more than a…
Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia)
Drawing on extensive interviews and rehearsal material, Christopher Bigsby explores the entirety of Arthur Miller’s work (plays, poetry, fiction and films) in this comprehensive and stimulating study. This is an…
Since his death in 2005, interest in Arthur Miller’s life and work has shown no sign of diminishing. This flagship Companion has been updated to include Miller’s work since the…
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
