Timebends (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1915-1987
- Setting: The United States, Italy, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and China
- Principal Characters: Arthur Miller, Mary Slattery, Marilyn Monroe, Inge Morath
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Culture, Acting or actors, Memory, Love or romance, Writing, Ethics, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Work or workers
Form and Content
While All My Sons was opening in Boston in 1947, Arthur Miller was already dreaming of another play that would
cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers, and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding another, display past and present concurrently, with neither one ever coming to a stop.
Two years later, Death of a Salesman, the American play most firmly established in the world repertoire, achieved that structure of simultaneity and, as far as anyone...
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