Arthur Miller: A Critical Study
Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521605533, ISBN10: 0521605539
Paperback, 528 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
Language: English
Christopher Bigsby explores the entirety of Arthur Miller's work, including plays, poetry, fiction and films, in this comprehensive and stimulating study. Drawing on interviews conducted over the last twenty years, on unique rehearsal material and research archives, he paints a compelling picture of how Miller's works were influenced by and created in the light of events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an enjoyable insight into a great playwright that will interest both theatregoers and students of modern drama.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Michigan plays
2. The Golden Years, The Half-Bridge, Boro Hall Nocturne
3. The radio plays
4. The Man Who Had All the Luck
5. Focus
6. All My Sons
7. Death of a Salesman
8. Arthur Miller
time-traveller
9. An Enemy of the People
10. The Crucible
11. A Memory of Two Mondays
12. A View from the Bridge
13. Tragedy
14. The Misfits
15. After the Fall
16. Incident at Vichy
17. The Price
18. The Creation of the World and Other Business
19. The Archbishop's Ceiling
20. Playing for Time
21. The shearing point
22. The American Clock
23. The one-act plays
Two-Way Mirror and Danger
Memory!
24. The Ride Down Mount Morgan
25. The Last Yankee
26. Broken Glass
27. Mr Peters' Connections
28. Resurrection Blues
29. Finishing the Picture
30. Fiction
31. Arthur Miller as a Jewish writer
Notes
Index.
'Bigsby's epic study is readable, comprehensive and profound. It's not a beginner's guide, and plot summaries rapidly give way to in-depth discussion, with brief biographical links rounding off each chapter. Given the massive task, the evidence of haste in some of the writing is excusable. This book is clearly a must not only for Miller fans, but for anyone wanting to know about the post-war struggles of the engaged artist - committed both to accounting for his life, and bearing witness to history.' The Independent