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Collected Essays

The collected essays of the “moral voice of [the] American stage” (The New York Times) in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Arthur Miller was not only one of America’s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one ...

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781101992043

Category: Performing Arts

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The collected essays of the “moral voice of [the] American stage” (The New York Times) in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Arthur Miller was not only one of America’s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectual voices. Throughout his career, he consistently remained one of the country’s leading public intellectuals, advocating tirelessly for social justice, global democracy, and the arts. Theater scholar Susan C. W. Abbotson introduces this volume as a selection of Miller’s finest essays, organized in three thematic parts: essays on the theater, essays on specific plays like Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and sociopolitical essays on topics spanning from the Depression to the twenty-first century. Written with playful wit, clear-eyed intellect, and above all, human dignity, these essays offer unmatched insight into the work of Arthur Miller and the turbulent times through which he guided his country. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
2016-11-22 By Arthur Miller
Performing Arts

The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

And so the title of this book suggests its scope and emphasis: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller is a selected gathering of Miller's essays—and a few of the many interviews he granted over the years—drawn from two sources: The ...

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472591760

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 536

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This comprehensive volume brings together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time: Arthur Miller. Arranged chronologically from 1944 to 2000, these writings take the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history alongside offering a remarkable record of Miller's views on theater. They give eloquent expression to his belief in 'the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone'. Published with the essays are articles that Miller had written and in-depth interviews he has given. This collection features material from two earlier publications: Echoes Down the Corridor and The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller. It is edited and features a new introduction by Matthew Roudané, Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University. 'Arthur Miller understands that serious writing is a social act as well as an aesthetic one, that political involvement comes with the territory. A writer's work and his actions should be of the same cloth, after all. His plays and his conscience are a cold burning force.' Edward Albee
2016-03-31 By Arthur Miller
Literary Criticism

Arthur Miller for the Twenty First Century

Miller also wrote nearly 90 essays totaling nearly 900 pages. These essays, a significant number of which may be found in Robert A. Martin and Steven R. Centola's The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1996), Centola's Echoes Down the ...

Author: Stephen Marino

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030372934

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 321

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Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre. The collection begins by exploring Miller in the context of 20th-century American drama. Chapters discuss Miller and Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, as well as thematic relationships between Miller’s ideas and the explosion of significant women and African American dramatists since the 1970s. Other essays focus more directly on interpretations of Miller’s individual works, not only plays but also essays and fiction, including a discussion of Death of a Salesman in China. The volume concludes by considering Miller and current cultural issues: his work for human rights, his depiction of American ideals of masculinity, and his anticipation of contemporary posthumanism.
2020-02-27 By Stephen Marino
Literary Criticism

Arthur Miller s Century

Bloomsbury marked the occasion with two timely publications: Death of a Salesman in Beijing, a re-issue of Miller's diary when directing his most famous play in China, and The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller, a new compilation of ...

Author: Stephen Marino

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443896153

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 255

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Arthur Miller was one of the major American dramatists of the twentieth century, clearly ranking with other truly great American playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee. The centennial of Miller’s birth in New York City on October 17, 1915 was celebrated around the world with a panoply of staged productions, theatrical events, media documentaries, and academic conferences. Miller earned his reputation during a career of more than seventy years, in which he achieved critical success in the 1940s and 1950s with the dramas All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. He was also notable for his refusal to “name names at his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee”, his marriage to the film actress Marilyn Monroe, and his spell as president of the literary organization, International P.E.N. Arthur Miller was not only a literary giant, but also one of the more significant political, cultural, and social figures of his time. He was a man of conviction and integrity who frequently took stands, popular and unpopular, on the ethical issues that engaged societies throughout the world. This collection includes eclectic essays from Miller scholars who provide detailed discussions of text and performance, of Miller as a political and cultural figure, and of his connection to other playwrights. The contributions explore the trajectory of Miller’s career, his most famous and frequently produced works, such as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, the dramas of his later career, and his fiction. The collection appeals to a broad American and international audience and a cross-section of readers, including undergraduates, graduates, emerging scholars, drama and theatre specialists, as well as theatre-goers who flock to revivals of Miller’s plays.
2017-06-20 By Stephen Marino
Literary Criticism

Masterpieces of 20th century American Drama

Arthur Miller : A Collection of Critical Essays . Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice - Hall , 1969 . Evans , Richard I. Psychology and Arthur Miller . New York : Dutton , 1969 . Gottfried , Martin . Arthur Miller : His Life and Work .

Author: Susan C. W. Abbotson

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0313332231

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 227

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Chapters discuss 10 major works of modern American drama widely read by students.
2005 By Susan C. W. Abbotson
English essays

Echoes Down the Corridor

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1200285685

Category: English essays

Page: 332

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2000 By Arthur Miller
Literary Criticism

The American Play

Cornell's ''White Crested Cockatoo (for Blanche DuBois)'' is in his 1948 diary, collected in the Joseph Cornell Papers at the ... Arthur Miller, ''Introduction to the Collected Plays'' (1957), in Theater Essays of Arthur Miller, 147.

Author: Marc Robinson

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 9780300156126

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 416

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In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.
2009-05-26 By Marc Robinson
Juvenile Nonfiction

Reading and Interpreting the Works of Arthur Miller

3. Arthur Miller, “Guilt and Incident at Vichy,” Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000 (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000), 69–70. Chapter 7. The Stage Is the Thing 1. Arthur Miller, “Introduction,” Collected Plays: One ...

Author: Amy Dunkleberger

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

ISBN: 9780766073418

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 160

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Arthur Miller is described by some as the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. But to fully understand and appreciate his work, students must comprehend the political climate in which he was writing and the changes facing the world at the time. This engaging text provides readers with critical analysis of his themes, style, and language; direct quotations from Miller; and relevant biographical details. Students will learn about the world Arthur Miller was reflecting in his writing and why his works have become American classics.
2015-12-15 By Amy Dunkleberger
American essays

Echoes Down the Corridor

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:903908832

Category: American essays

Page: 328

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2000 By Arthur Miller
Literary Criticism

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

Miller, Arthur ([1957]1996), “Introduction to the Collected Plays,” reprinted in Robert A. Martin and Steven R. Centola (eds.), The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller, 113–74, New York: Da Capo Press. Miller, Arthur (1987), Timebends: A ...

Author: David Palmer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781474276948

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 272

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This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
2018-02-08 By David Palmer

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