Plays: "All My Sons"; "Death of a Salesman"; the "Crucible"; A "Memory of Two Mondays"; A "View from the Bridge": Vol 1 (Methuen World Dramatists) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413158101 ISBN 13: 9780413158109

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1988

Synopsis

This volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit in 1947: 'With the production of All My Sons,' wrote Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times, 'the theatre has acquired a genuine new talent.' This hit was followed by an even greater play: Death of a Salesman. 'A great play of our day', wrote the New York Herald Tribune and the play has gone on to become the classic American tragedy of Willy Loman, a salesman who becomes disillusioned with the American dream. The Crucible(1953) was produced during the McCarthy era and became a parable of the witch-hunting practises of a government rooting out Communists. A View from the Bridge(1955) concerns the lives of longshoremen in the Brooklyn waterfront and has remained one of Miller's most produced plays. A Memory of Two Mondays, a one-act play, was written as a companion piece to A View from the Bridge. "The greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard)

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Review:

"The greatest American dramatist of our age" Evening Standard

About the Author:

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the most important playwright of the twentieth century whose oeuvre includes novels, screenplays, essays and an autobiography. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0413158101
• ISBN 13: 9780413158109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448