A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Miller's artistry. A chronology of Miller's life and work helps to situate his oeuvre in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of his writing, its recurrent themes and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on the context, themes, characters, structure and language, and the play in production - both on stage and screen adaptations; there are questions for further study and detailed notes on words and phrases in the text. 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 Miller's greatest plays.
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas.
Selected works by Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and other distinguished playwrights are brought together in this anthology of American drama
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 ...
Instead, Melody shoots and kills his prized mare, the pride of his nobility, an action that proves just as effective as suicide. Melody retreats to the backroom of the bar where he can swill cheap whiskey with his low and common friends ...
Kate Keller , in All My Sons , is a figure worthy of attention right from her ambiguous opening description : " A woman of uncontrolled inspirations and an overwhelming capacity for love " ( 102 ) . " Uncontrolled " and " overwhelming ...
As Gregory Solomon , an ancient furniture dealer , watches with amusement , Victor and Walter argue about their father and the family secrets that have driven them apart . The Price explores many of Miller's favorite themes - guilt ...
The Penguin Arthur Miller includes: The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, An Enemy of the People, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and ...
Detailed analysis of Williams' most studied plays, together with questions and study aids to assist students.
This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well as excerpts from Miller's memoir Timebends.
Presents the classic play, first produced in 1947, about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of a World War II corruption case.