The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century and this Companion provides an introduction to this influential dramatist. In addition to analyses of Miller's plays, fiction and contributions to film, his work is placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. In the past twenty years Miller has written a host of new plays, and the Companion examines these works. It also contains a detailed chronology of Miller's work and illustrations from important productions. Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century. His work is performed and studied around the world and this Companion provides an introduction to this influential dramatist. In addition to analyses of Miller's plays, including All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, his work is also placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. The impact of the Depression, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism are explored in light of the plays, and the contributors also discuss Miller's fiction and work in film. In the last twenty years, Miller has written a host of new plays and the Companion also examines these works, including The Ride Down Mount Morgan, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay which reviews the key studies of Miller. It also contains a detailed chronology of Miller's work and illustrations from important productions Contents......Page 8 List of illustrations......Page 10 Notes on contributors......Page 11 Chronology......Page 15 1 Introduction......Page 22 2 The tradition of social drama: Miller and his forebears......Page 31 3 The early plays......Page 42 4 All My Sons......Page 69 5 Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller......Page 81 6 Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible......Page 107 7 A View fronuthe Bridge......Page 122 8 The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism: Miller in the sixties......Page 136 9 Miller's 1970s "power" plays......Page 160 10 Miller in the eighties......Page 173 11 Miller in the nineties......Page 189 12 Arthur Miller and the cinema......Page 205 13 Arthur Miller's fiction......Page 232 14 Critic, criticism, critics......Page 251 15 Arthur Miller: a bibliographic essay......Page 266 9780521559928_index......Page 288 Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century, and his work is performed all over the world. As well as analysing his plays, the contributors place his work in the context of the social and political climate of the time