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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 on his plays is examined, 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 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. The Companion also contains a detailed chronology of Miller's work and illustrations from important productions. Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ARTHUR MILLER Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE The Cambridge Companion to Old English The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Literature Conrad edited by Malcolm Godden and edited by J. H. Stape Michael Lapidge The Cambridge Companion to Faulkner The Cambridge Companion to Dante edited by Philip M. 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David Moody The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism edited by Jill Kraye Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ARTHUR MILLER EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/052155019X © Cambridge University Press 1997 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1997 Sixth printing 2005 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to Arthur Miller / edited by Christopher Bigsby. p. cm. - (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 55019 X (hardback). - ISBN 0 521 55992 8 (paperback) 1. Miller, Arthur, 1915 — Criticism and interpretation. I. Bigsby, C. W. E. Series. PS3525.15156Z548 1997 812'.52-dc21 97-37707 CIP ISBN-10 0-521-55019-X hardback ISBN-10 0-521-55992-8 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2005 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CONTENTS List of illustrations page ix Notes on contributors x Chronology xiv SUSAN HAEDICKE 1 Introduction i 2 The tradition of social drama: Miller and his forebears 10 BRENDA MURPHY 3 The early plays 2.1 CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY 4 All My Sons 48 STEVEN R. CENTOLA 5 Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller 60 MATTHEW C. ROUDANE 6 Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible 86 THOMAS P. ADLER 7 A View fronuthe Bridge 101 ALBERT WERTHEIM 8 The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism: Miller in the sixties 115 JANET N. BALAKIAN vii Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CONTENTS 9 Miller's 1970s "power" plays 139 WILLIAM W. DEMASTES 10 Miller in the eighties 152 JUNE SCHLUETER 11 Miller in the nineties 168 CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY 12 Arthur Miller and the cinema 184 R. BARTON PALMER 13 Arthur Miller's fiction 211 MALCOLM BRADBURY 14 Critic, criticism, critics 230 STEPHEN BARKER 15 Arthur Miller: a bibliographic essay 245 SUSAN HAEDICKE Index 267 viii Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 ILLUSTRATIONS i Kate Reid, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, and Stephen Lang in page 61 the 1984 New York production of Death of a Salesman, directed by Michael Rudman (Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations). 2. Clare Holman in The Crucible, the Royal National Theatre, London 91 (photograph: Alastair Muir). 3 Jason Robards Jr. and Barbara Loden in After the Fall, the Lincoln 118 Center Repertory Company, 1964, directed by Elia Kazan (reproduced by permission of the Harry Ransom Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin). 4 Hal Holbrook and Joseph Wiseman in Incident at Vichy, New York, 124 1964 (reproduced by permission of the Harry Ransom Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin). 5 Bob Peck, Alan MacNaughtan, and David Calder in The Price, The 131 Young Vic, London, 1990 (photograph: Gordon Rainsford). 6 Tom Conti and Harry Landis in the first production of The Ride 169 Down Mount Morgan, Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1991 (photograph: Alastair Muir). 7 Margot Leicester and Helen Burns in the first production of The 173 Last Yankee, The Young Vic, London, 1993, directed by David Thacker (photograph: Alastair Muir). 8 Arthur Miller in rehearsal with Margot Leicester and Henry 179 Goodman for Broken Glass, the Royal National Theatre, 1994, directed by David Thacker (photograph: Alastair Muir). ix Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006
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