All My Sons (Hereford Plays) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435225782 ISBN 13: 9780435225780

Publisher: Heinemann ed, 1971

Synopsis

All my Sons: set by NICCEA at GCSE. Hereford Plays: the best of twentieth-century drama for study and performance. A set of plays that are perfect for class reading and performance, providing effective solutions to today?s teaching needs., Offers the widest range of texts for GCSE and A-Level available. Each play is supported by practical advice and classroom activities, while many have large casts and an equal mix of parts for boys and girls. Meets the varied needs of GCSE and A-Level, helping you to make exactly the right choice for your students., As well as an unrivalled choice of plays for coursework, we also publish more set plays than anyone else. Durable hardback covers and long-lasting sewn binding, so they last for many years.

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Review:

'The uniform structure and consistent approach eveident in these [first] four volumes make them readable and accessible to students and scholars alike and guarantee that these editions will certainly persist as invaluable tools for those who both enjoy Miller as a dramatist and study him as a significant social and American spokesperson.' The Arthur Miller Journal, fall 2010 Arthur Miller's first successful play is a devastating indictment of the post-war American dream. Neil Norman, Daily Express, 28.5.10 Miller's theme of man's responsibility towards his fellow men feels genuinely noble rather than merely didactic. It is also urgently topical. Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 28.5.10 All My Sons, according to David Mamet, is not only Arthur Miller's greatest play but also one of the ten best American plays of the 20Th century. Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 29.5.10 This saturated realism may seem to be the default mode for All My Sons, which had its origins in a real-life incident. Still, there's another strand to the play: a visionary, apocalypric element... Susannah Clapp, Observer, 30.5.10 Miler ultimately puts us all on trial. This is a production of rare power and intensity... Tim Walker, Sunday Telegraph, 30.5.10 Arthur Miller's first major stage success set a template for his searing dessections of the American Dream. Sibhan Murphy, Metro (London), 1.6.10 Arthur Miller's 1947 play is an extraordinary construction, rising inexorably to peak of guilt revelation even as it descends into the dephts of a man's and a nation's psyche. Nina Caplan, Time Out London, 3.6.10 A preventable tragedy is at the nub of Arthur Miller's 1947 play All My Sonsl It was red-hot with resonance then and, some six decades on, with accusations flying above substandard or inadequate equipment provided for Armed Forces in Afghanistan, it is even more combustible now. Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday, 6.6.10

About the Author:

American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann ed
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0435225782
• ISBN 13: 9780435225780
• Binding: Paperback