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Miller, Arthur - 1915–, American dramatist, b. New York City, grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1938. Miller's plays are concerned with morality and the pressures exerted on people by family and society. His masterpiece, Death of a Salesman (1949; Pulitzer Prize), is the story of a salesman betrayed by his own hollow values and those of American society. The Crucible (1953) is both a dynamic

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Student Companion to Arthur Miller » Read Now
by Susan C. W. Abbotson. 174 pgs.

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This critical introduction to Arthur Miller provides an indispensable aid for students and general readers to understand the depth and complexity of some of America's most important dramatic works. Beginning with a discussion of his life, this work traces not only Miller's theatrical career, but his...
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This critical introduction to Arthur Miller provides an indispensable aid for students and general readers to understand the depth and complexity of some of America's most important dramatic works. 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. Detailed discussions of eight important plays are organized around the social and moral themes Miller derived from such events; these themes are evident in in such works as Death of A Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, and All My Sons. By placing Miller within the context of his times, this discussion reveals how he was influenced by and reacted to the major events in his own life and in American culture. Analysis of his more recent works such as The American Clock, Broken Glass and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan illustrate the consistency of Miller's strong moral vision, and his continuing innovative contributions to American theatre.
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Arthur Miller » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 157 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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The Play: A Critical Anthology (Chap. 9 "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller) » Read Now
by Eric Bentley. 786 pgs.

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...Ghosts AUGUST STRINDBERG The Ghost Sonata ARTHUR MILLER Death of a Salesman The Play A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY...ELIZABETH SPRIGGE 588 9. DEATH OF A SALESMAN , by Arthur Miller...
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 156 pgs.

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Offers concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information presented in a user-friendly format for book reports and term papers. It condenses extensive critical research into one compact student handbook.
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Willy Loman » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 188 pgs.

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"I'm Not a Dime a Dozen! I Am Willy Loman!": The Significance of Names and Numbers in Death of a Salesman, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Frank Ardolino. 11 pgs.

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Preface to Drama: An Introduction to Dramatic Literature and Theater Art (Chap. VIII "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller) » Read Now
by Charles W. Cooper. 776 pgs.

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...dramatists: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Modern literary playwrights...CRUCIBLE--AN HISTORICAL PLAY BY ARTHUR MILLER 636 Introductory Note to Arthur Miller and The...
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The Crucible (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 194 pgs.

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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on...
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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence".
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Babylonian Confusion and Biblical Inversion in Miller's The Crucible, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Frank Ardolino. 9 pgs.

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The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller » Read Now
by Terry Otten. 280 pgs.

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For more than fifty years Arthur Miller has been a dramatist. He has been a chronicler of American culture, which he has both celebrated and criticized. The Temptation of Innocence in the dramas of Arthur Miller examines all of Miller's plays, from his unpublished undergraduate dramas written at the...
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For more than fifty years Arthur Miller has been a dramatist. He has been a chronicler of American culture, which he has both celebrated and criticized. The Temptation of Innocence in the dramas of Arthur Miller examines all of Miller's plays, from his unpublished undergraduate dramas written at the University of Michigan to Mr. Peter's Connections, his last performed play. Terry Otten offers a broad critical review and assessment of Miller's plays in light of the major revival of Miller's work in the past decade and a growing critical reassessment of his work by the scholarly community.
Focusing on the temptation of innocence, a recurrent theme in Miller's work, Otten explores the conflict between innocence and personal responsibility from such widely acclaimed early plays as Death of a Salesman, which forges a "tragedy of the common man, " to his later, near postmodern texts, which treat memory in very different ways. Still locating the presentness of the past as a center of meaning in characters who follow Willy Loman, Miller continues to investigate the role innocence plays in the lives of his more modern characters.
Otten contends that, for over a half century, Miller examined the relationship between self and society in remarkably consistent terms while adapting his art to contemporary changes in concepts of reality. Fully documented and thoroughly researched, this book will prove a valuable source for later studies of Miller and a standard reference for examining the entire range of the plays. Otten avoids critical jargon, making this book an appealing choice for a general audience interested in literature and American culture.
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A Jew Can Have a Jewish Face: Arthur Miller, Autobiography, and the Holocaust, in Prooftexts » Read Now
by Kinereth Meyer. 20 pgs.

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...Jew Can Have a Jewish Face": Arthur Miller, Autobiography, and the Holocaust...1987 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Timebends, Arthur Miller tells of his visit to Bari...effect, transforms...
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Playwright versus Director: Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations (Chap. 12 "A Director's Distortion of a Modern Classic: Arthur Miller's Shift in Stance") » Read Now
by Jeane Luere, Sidney Berger. 180 pgs.

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Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his play into exciting theatre, but playwrights...
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Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his play into exciting theatre, but playwrights find that giving directors leeway to interpret and modify "text" can result in directors' overriding authorial intentions. This book presents the best that has been written by literary theorists on the current definitions of "text" and attempts to depart from quick rule-of-thumb assessments of the problem.
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition (Chap. 12 "Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism") » Read Now
by William W. Demastes. 292 pgs.

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...heritage. Brenda Murphy examines Arthur Millers complicated relationship with...Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, and later Sam Shepard--all...
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Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama ("Both His Sons: Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation" begins on p. 121) » Read Now
by Marc Maufort. 398 pgs.

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...Council of Library Resources. 1995 Peter Lang...from The Price in Arthur Miller Collected Plays , copyright...1968 and 1969 by Arthur Miller and Ingeborg M. Miller...
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Family, Drama, and American Dreams (Chap. 4 "Reactions I: Family and Society in Arthur Miller") » Read Now
by Tom Scanlan. 238 pgs.

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...plays of Eugene ONeill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams...stage set in Welland, Arthur Miller New York, 1961...401 . 22. Arthur W. Calhoun, A Social...26. Perry...
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Radio Drama in Action: Twenty-Five Plays of a Changing World ("Grandpa and the Statue" by Arthur Miller begins on p. 267) » Read Now
by Erik Barnouw. 420 pgs.

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