The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

Revised and updated to include Miller's late work and the key productions and criticism since the playwright's death in 2005.

Christopher Bigsby (Edited by)

9780521768740, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 April 2010

328 pages, 12 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.64 kg

Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, and his work continues to be widely performed and studied around the world. This updated Companion includes Miller's work since the publication of the first edition in 1997 - the plays Mr Peters' Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture - and key productions of his plays since his death in 2005. The chapter on Miller and the cinema has been completely revised to include new films, and demonstrates that Miller's work remains an important source for filmmakers. In addition to detailed analyses of plays including Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Miller's work is also placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay which reviews the key studies of Miller and also contains a detailed chronology of the work of this influential dramatist.

Chronology Susan Haedicke
1. Introduction
2. The tradition of social drama: Miller and his forebears Brenda Murphy
3. The early plays Christopher Bigsby
4. All My Sons Steven R. Centola
5. Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller Matthew C. Roudané
6. Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible Thomas P. Adler
7. A View from the Bridge Albert Wertheim
8. The Holocaust, the Depression and McCarthyism: Miller in the sixties Janet N. Balakian
9. Miller's 1970s 'power' plays William W. Demastes
10. Miller in the eighties June Schlueter
11. The last plays Christopher Bigsby
12. Arthur Miller and the cinema R. Barton Palmer
13. Arthur Miller's fiction Malcolm Bradbury
14. Critic, criticism, critics Stephen Barker
15. Arthur Miller: a bibliographic essay Susan Haedicke.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS], Literature & literary studies [D], Theatre studies [AN]