Arthur Miller
A Playwright's Life and Works
Enoch Brater
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| ‘Economically written and insightful … concise, convincing – and definitely worth the shelf space’ | | – The Jewish Chronicle |
Arthur Miller is one of the most highly regarded and widely performed playwrights of our time.
This is the first new study to appear since the playwright’s death – an informed and timely look at Miller’s life and works supported by a wide selection of personal and public photographs.
Professor Brater follows Miller’s career from his prizewinning student days at the University of Michigan, through the landmark success of his 1949 drama, italic(Death of a Salesman), to his doomed marriage to the actress Marilyn Monroe and beyond.
Examining seminal works, including All My Sons, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge, as well as commenting on Miller’s journalism, fiction, screenplays and acclaimed autobiography, Brater looks at how the writer, throughout his long career, achieved a fusion of political allegory, family drama, realism and expressionism, and themes of unrest and redemption to stunning –and often devastating – effect.
Enoch Brater, Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Michigan, has published numerous critical studies on modern and contemporary theatre, including The Essential Samuel Beckett.
Also of interest:
The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography
The Theatre: A Concise History
The Abbey Theatre – Ireland’s National Theatre:
The First 100 Years |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500512426 | | ISBN-13 978-0500512425 | | | | 23.5 x 16.8 cm | | Hardback | | 144pp | | 70 illustrations | | First published 2005 | | | | £15.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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