Arthur Miller
A Critical Study

An insightful study of Arthur Miller's work.

Christopher Bigsby (Author)

9780521844161, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 December 2004

528 pages
23.6 x 16.3 x 3.8 cm, 0.965 kg

'While there is no shortage of books about Arthur Miller out there, this new study by Christopher Bigsby is surely one of the best and most valuable to date.' MLR

Christopher Bigsby explores the entirety of Arthur Miller's work, including plays, poetry, fiction and films, in this comprehensive and stimulating study. Drawing on interviews conducted over the last twenty years, on unique rehearsal material and research archives, he paints a compelling picture of how Miller's works were influenced by and created in the light of events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an enjoyable insight into a great playwright that will interest both theatregoers and students of modern drama.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Michigan plays
2. The Golden Years, The Half-Bridge, Boro Hall Nocturne
3. The radio plays
4. The Man Who Had All the Luck
5. Focus
6. All My Sons
7. Death of a Salesman
8. Arthur Miller: time-traveller
9. An Enemy of the People
10. The Crucible
11. A Memory of Two Mondays
12. A View from the Bridge
13. Tragedy
14. The Misfits
15. After the Fall
16. Incident at Vichy
17. The Price
18. The Creation of the World and Other Business
19. The Archbishop's Ceiling
20. Playing for Time
21. The shearing point
22. The American Clock
23. The one-act plays: Two-Way Mirror and Danger: Memory!
24. The Ride Down Mount Morgan
25. The Last Yankee
26. Broken Glass
27. Mr Peters' Connections
28. Resurrection Blues
29. Finishing the Picture
30. Fiction
31. Arthur Miller as a Jewish writer
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Biography: arts & entertainment [BGF], Theatre studies [AN]