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arthur Miller
1915 – 2005, american
The Portable Arthur Miller
Edited by Christopher Bigsby with an
Introduction by Harold Clurman
This rich cross-section includes six
complete plays spanning Miller’s career:
The Golden Years, Death of a Salesman,
The Crucible, After the Fall, The American
Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass.
624 pp. 978-0-14-243755-1 $18.00
All My Sons
Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
Winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award for
Best New Play in 1947
Miller’s first major play established him
as a leading voice in American theater.
In it he introduced themes that would
thread their way through his oeuvre: the
relationships between fathers and sons
and the conflict between business and
personal ethics.
96 pp. 978-0-14-118546-0 $12.00
The Crucible
Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
Based on historical people and real events,
Miller’s play about the witch-hunts and
trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing
portrait of a community engulfed by
hysteria. The Crucible is not only a play
of extraordinary dramatic intensity, but
a provocative reminder of the dangers
of imposed moralities and “correct
thinking.”
176 pp. 978-0-14-243733-9 $13.00
Death of a Salesman
Certain Private Conversations
in Two Acts and a Requiem
Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Hailed as the first great play to lay bare
the emptiness of America’s relentless drive
for material success, Death of a Salesman
is Miller’s classic portrait of an ordinary
man’s struggle to leave his mark on the
world.
144 pp. 978-0-14-118097-7 $13.00
arthur Miller
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After attending the University
of Michigan, he returned to New York where he began his remarkable career in
playwriting after publishing the novel Focus in 1945. His first successful play, All
My Sons, was soon followed by Death of a Salesman, which received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1949 and established Miller as a preeminent American playwright.
Written in 1953, The Crucible, a play about the Salem witch trials, is considered
by many to be an allegory for the McCarthy hearings, which Miller attended.
A View from the Bridge garnered Miller his second Pulitzer Prize and the New
York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1955. Miller broke ground in contemporary
playwriting by portraying the dreams and despair of American working people.
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