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Eight Plays
Eight plays by Arthur Miller include:
Introduction
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
A Memory of Two Mondays
A View from the Bridge
After the Fall
Incident at Vichy
The Price
Introduction
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
A Memory of Two Mondays
A View from the Bridge
After the Fall
Incident at Vichy
The Price
- GenresPlays
735 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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About the author
Arthur Miller
538 books3,181 followersWorks of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include
Death of a Salesman
(1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and
The Crucible
(1953).
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
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October 23, 2022
All of the plays in this book are worth reading. Death of a Salesman is widely viewed as one of the greatest of American plays, and in a strong production can be powerful indeed. My two favorites in this volume are:
All My Sons: The story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a play about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed--all the boys in the War--were his sons, too. But Arthur Miller, who wrote this powerful and moving work in 1947, has more than just that on his mind: this is a play about all the compromises we are forced to make to live in a dishonest world, about a country's irrevocable loss of innocence.
The Crucible: Miller wrote this as an impassioned rebuttal to the scary Communist "witch hunts" conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committees: attacks on innocent citizens ranging from innuendo and blacklisting to trials and even prison sentences, sanctioned by the government and the corporate establishment. In The Crucible, Miller only thinly disguised what he saw happening around him, taking in all the hot-button topics--guilt by association, naming names, and trumped-up "confessions" are as much a part of the Salem of 1692 depicted in this play as they were of the America Miller lived in 270 years later.
The Crucible begins with Reverend Parris, an unpopular and opportunistic minister of the fire-and-brimstone variety, calling in supposed "witch expert" Reverend John Hale to attend to his young daughter Betty. Betty came down with a mysterious ailment after a night of forbidden revelry with a group of other girls and Parris's Barbadian slave Tituba, and Parris suspects that she may have been "witched." Hale is inclined to agree, and soon the whole town of Salem, Massachusetts is in a panic, seeking sorceresses among the outcast women of town and, eventually, among the most pious as well. Among the accused are the saintly Rebecca Nurse, who refuses to succumb to the hysteria and pays dearly for it, and Elizabeth Proctor, whose only crime, apart from fundamental goodness, is having banished a young harlot named Abigail Williams from her household the year before when she suspected her of having an affair with her husband John. Abigail is Parris's niece and quickly becomes the de facto leader of the bullying mob; it is her testimony that damns Elizabeth as a witch. There are two conflicts infusing The Crucible: the one between the unruly mob and the innocent lives they so eagerly sacrifice, and the other between the determinist tyranny of the Deputy Governor and the freedom-embracing individualism of quintessential American John Proctor.
All My Sons: The story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a play about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed--all the boys in the War--were his sons, too. But Arthur Miller, who wrote this powerful and moving work in 1947, has more than just that on his mind: this is a play about all the compromises we are forced to make to live in a dishonest world, about a country's irrevocable loss of innocence.
The Crucible: Miller wrote this as an impassioned rebuttal to the scary Communist "witch hunts" conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committees: attacks on innocent citizens ranging from innuendo and blacklisting to trials and even prison sentences, sanctioned by the government and the corporate establishment. In The Crucible, Miller only thinly disguised what he saw happening around him, taking in all the hot-button topics--guilt by association, naming names, and trumped-up "confessions" are as much a part of the Salem of 1692 depicted in this play as they were of the America Miller lived in 270 years later.
The Crucible begins with Reverend Parris, an unpopular and opportunistic minister of the fire-and-brimstone variety, calling in supposed "witch expert" Reverend John Hale to attend to his young daughter Betty. Betty came down with a mysterious ailment after a night of forbidden revelry with a group of other girls and Parris's Barbadian slave Tituba, and Parris suspects that she may have been "witched." Hale is inclined to agree, and soon the whole town of Salem, Massachusetts is in a panic, seeking sorceresses among the outcast women of town and, eventually, among the most pious as well. Among the accused are the saintly Rebecca Nurse, who refuses to succumb to the hysteria and pays dearly for it, and Elizabeth Proctor, whose only crime, apart from fundamental goodness, is having banished a young harlot named Abigail Williams from her household the year before when she suspected her of having an affair with her husband John. Abigail is Parris's niece and quickly becomes the de facto leader of the bullying mob; it is her testimony that damns Elizabeth as a witch. There are two conflicts infusing The Crucible: the one between the unruly mob and the innocent lives they so eagerly sacrifice, and the other between the determinist tyranny of the Deputy Governor and the freedom-embracing individualism of quintessential American John Proctor.
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