Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur ( 1915 – 2005 ),American playwright, born in New York and educated at the University of Michigan, where he began to write plays. He made his name with All My Sons ( 1947 ), an Ibsenesque drama about a manufacturer of defective aeroplane parts, and established himself as a leading dramatist with Death of a Salesman ( 1949 ), in which a travelling salesman, Willie Loman , is brought to disaster by accepting the false values of contemporary society. This was followed by The Crucible ( 1952 ), in which the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 are used as a parable for McCarthyism in America in the 1950s. A View from the Bridge ( 1955 ) is a tragedy of family honour and revenge, sparked by the presence in longshoreman Eddie's apartment of two illegal Italian immigrants; the lawyer Alfieri comments as chorus on the inevitability of the action. The Misfits ( 1961 ) is a screenplay...
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