Arthur Miller, New EditionHarold Bloom Playwright Arthur Miller is best known for his works A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, All My Sons, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A powerful modern tragedy,Death of a Salesman helped ushe |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Historians View | 9 |
The Wooster Group Arthur Miller and The Crucible | 23 |
All My Sons and Paternal Authority | 39 |
unhappy confessions in The Crucible | 57 |
Life Imitates Art | 79 |
A Humanist Response to a Postmodern World | 93 |
Death of a Salesman and Popular Sales Advice Literature | 107 |
The Strange Case of Career of a Salesman | 169 |
Arthur Miller 19152005 | 185 |
The playwright drew a line between reaching out and selling out | 191 |
Arthur Miller and the Art of Possibility | 197 |
Chronology | 215 |
Contributors | 217 |
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Acknowledgments | 225 |
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