Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 (Library of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193108291X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 774 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Enco
Five Stars byron1213 good. Great stuff A Customer This is probably the best value you're going to find. You get 3 of Miller's best and most well known plays (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible) along with a few other shorter works. It comes in a very handsome edition, hard cover, even has the tassle bo. Wonderful Collection from a Master Dramatist R. R. Harris As an old-school reader, I love hardbacks (and long sentences) and this collection not only is entertaining and illuminating, but the font style and size is easy to read, the book is easy to hold even in one hand, plus it has a ribbon bookmark (which is very useful for
In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist confronted with his moral lapses during World War II; Death of a Salesman, the wrenching tragedy of Willy Loman's demise; The Crucible, at once a riveting reconstruction of the Salem witch trials and a parable of McCarthyism; and A View from the Bridge, Miller's tale of betrayal among Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, presented here in both the original one-act and revised two-act versions. This volume also contains the intriguing ear
"Those of us who seek mastery of dramatic realist narrative have his plays to try to emulate. Scene after scene, they are perhaps our best constructed plays, works of a master." "Miller takes his rightful place in The Library of America with this volume containing Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, The Man Who Had All the Luck, An Enemy of the People, A Memory of Two Mondays, and The Misfits." --Library Journal (starred review) . From the Back Cover ARTHUR MILLER: COLLECTED PLAYS 1944-1961 Tony Kushner, editor "For American playwrights who come after Arthur Miller, there is of course an unpayable debt," writes Tony Kushner