All My Sons | Essays and Criticism

  • Comparing Miller's Play with Sophocle's Oedipus Rex

    In this essay, John W. Fiero considers All My Sons as Miller's first attempt to write what he would call a tragedy of the common man, comparing it with Sophocles's great tragedy, Oedipus Rex.

  • The Living and the Dead in All My Sons

    Arvin R. Wells discusses the merits of Miller's play as a work of social thesis, but the critic also contends that the play offers a greater wealth of themes than that simple assessment—including the playwright's probing insights into human nature.

  • Arthur Miller: 1947

    Harold Clurman examines All My Sons in the context of the other plays of 1947, finding that the work ‘‘rouses and moves.’’

  • The Theatre

    In this review of the original stage production, Peter Fleming assesses Miller's play as a thought-provoking and entertaining theatrical experience.