Examines the life and works of Arthur Miller, including detailed synopses of a variety of his works, character descriptions, important places Miller lived and wrote about, and biographies of family, friends, and contemporaries.
Revised and updated to include Miller's late work and the key productions and criticism since the playwright's death in 2005.
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to ...
Beginning with a discussion of his life, this work traces not only Miller's theatrical career, but his formulative experiences with the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
This collection of critical essays covers general topics related to the playwright's work as well as individual plays like Death of a Salesman.
... The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Panikkar, N. Bhaskara, Individual Morality and Social Happiness in Arthur Miller. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, ...
CONTENTS List of Tables and Boxes Biographical Note and Notes on Contributors General Preface Brenda Murphy and Julia Listengarten 1 Introduction to the 1950s Susan C. W. Abbotson Domestic life Society Political events Popular culture ...
She is the author of A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller and Student Companion to Arthur Miller and numerous articles on Arthur Miller. She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama, Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama ...
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: 20th Century American Drama: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, language: English, abstract: ...
... the longshoreman whose protective love of his niece turns incestuous, more completely, I think, than any actor who's ever played it,' wrote Norman Nadel in the New York WorldTelegram and Sun (29 January 1965).
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS SUSAN C. W. ABBOTSON currently teaches at Rhode Island College and has published The Student Companion to Arthur Miller ( 2000 ) , as well as articles in various journals on Miller , August Wilson , and Nick Park's ...