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- The Crucible (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Death of a Salesman (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Timebends (Magill Book Reviews)
- Timebends (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- The Crucible (Magill Book Reviews)
- Death of a Salesman (Magill Book Reviews)
- All My Sons (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Crucible (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Death of a Salesman (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Crucible (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Death of a Salesman (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- All My Sons (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- Incident at Vichy (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- All My Sons (Masterplots II: Drama)
- The Crucible (Masterplots II: Drama)
- After the Fall (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- The Price (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- Echoes Down the Corridor (Magill's Literary Annual 2001)
- Staging and Production (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Dramatic Genres (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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- Author: Arthur Miller
Biography
Along with Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller is usually considered the most important American playwright of the generation that came out of World War II. Miller grew up in a Jewish family in Harlem and in Brooklyn in the years just preceding the Depression. His father, Isidore, was a prosperous businessman until the stock market crash led to the collapse of the economy and to a scarring of his son’s psyche from which he never fully recovered. Arthur Miller spent the 1930’s in a series of odd jobs, including a period in a warehouse that he movingly recollects in...
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