The Library of America now presents the greatest works of Arthur Miller in one volume. Arthur Miller: Collected Plays features All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Miller's adaptation of An Enemy of the People, A Memory of Two Mondays, and The Misfits. This is the perfect opportunity to discover what has caused such controversy for all these years.
Death of a Salesman, Miller's play about everyman, is famous as a modern tragedy about a failed businessman. The play can be seen as a brutal depiction of the American Dream, as Willy faces abandonment and betrayal. The play still stands as one of Miller's most discussed work; it ran for more than seven hundred performances.
After his success with Death of a Salesman, he next targets the McCarthyism paranoia with his play, The Crucible, which is the allegorical retelling of the Salem witch trials. Miller reshapes historical facts and legends to build an action-packed exploration of human behavior. By setting the play in 1692, Miller embeds a universality to the play. Transcend time and space to see how hysteria and intolerance can only come to chaos.
After his success with Death of a Salesman, he next targets the McCarthyism paranoia with his play, The Crucible, which is the allegorical retelling of the Salem witch trials. Miller reshapes historical facts and legends to build an action-packed exploration of human behavior. By setting the play in 1692, Miller embeds a universality to the play. Transcend time and space to see how hysteria and intolerance can only come to chaos.
Marks Upon The Stage
Along with Miller's two great classics, this volume features The Man Who Had All the Luck, one of his earliest plays, and All My Sons, his first successful play. With its depiction of a manufacturer who sells faulty parts to the military, All My Sons is a prelude to what would become his hugely successful Death of a Salesman.
So, not only does this volume offer a reading of Miller's greatest masterpieces, it also offers perspective on his development into one of the great American playwrights--even incorporating his autobiographical A Memory of Two Mondays and his tale of immigration policy and betrayal in A View from the Bridge. Listen to the voice of Arthur Miller--with these unforgettable works.
Along with Miller's two great classics, this volume features The Man Who Had All the Luck, one of his earliest plays, and All My Sons, his first successful play. With its depiction of a manufacturer who sells faulty parts to the military, All My Sons is a prelude to what would become his hugely successful Death of a Salesman.
So, not only does this volume offer a reading of Miller's greatest masterpieces, it also offers perspective on his development into one of the great American playwrights--even incorporating his autobiographical A Memory of Two Mondays and his tale of immigration policy and betrayal in A View from the Bridge. Listen to the voice of Arthur Miller--with these unforgettable works.
