MILLER
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and Special events, as well as links
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past events.
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current information for the following categories to make them as
detailed
as possible; include past, current and future events so that people can
use
this
as an archive. Send information to
Sue Abbotson. We try to keep only upcoming events on this page--but
you can link in each section to archive pages for information on past
conference papers, productions and events.
N.B. For
information
on
the Arthur Miller Journal--including how to subscribe
and
contents for previously published isssues, go to the Journal
website.
The
Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan
Calls
For
Papers:
The Arthur Miller Society is always
looking for
anyone
who would like to organize Miller panels at other conferences, such as
MLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Kate Egerton with proposals/details.
Ongoing
CFP:
Looking
for
papers on any aspect of the life and work of Arthur Miller for the Arthur
Miller Journal published Spring and Fall. Go to the Journal page for details.
The Journal
also publishes book and production reviews.
If a
Miller play is being produced in your area (check the listings
below)--feel free to go and see it and send in your review to Sue Abbotson, Performance
Review Editor of the Journal.
Contact the
respective editors for more information--all contact info. on the Journal page.
Modern
Language Association
2011 Conference
Location and Dates: Los
Angeles, CA. January 6-9, 2011
The Arthur Miller Society invites
proposals for papers for a panel at the 2011 MLA Conference.
Participants will be selected with the primary goal of providing
innovating and illuminating work on the following theme:
Panel Theme: New Perspectives on
Arthur Miller
This panel will provide new
perspectives on the styles, structures, and significations of Arthur
Miller’s plays and productions to advance future studies and
productions. Previous studies have been important to comprehend the
past and current discussions on Miller, but the interest of this panel
is to bring new perspectives to his work to demonstrate the continued
vitality of Miller plays, productions and scholarship.
Special consideration will be made
for papers that discuss how Miller’s work engages with the 2011 MLA
president’s theme Narrating Lives: “Exploring the narration of lives
engages broad theoretical issues of trauma and memory, authenticity and
truth telling, ethical accountability, modes of intersubjectivity,
remediation, and the cultural uses of narration. It foregrounds
temporal and geographic dimensions of the traffic in lives and
narratives through reception studies and studies of transnational and
translational routes of circulation. And it tests methodological
approaches to narration, reading practices, and reading communities.”
According to MLA policy, in order
to participate in the panel, you must be a member of MLA by April 1.
Please direct all proposals and
queries to:
Joshua Polster
Emerson College
Joshua_Polster@emerson.edu
Please submit proposals by email in
Word format. Proposals should include the following items:
- Name and Title
(student, faculty, independent scholar)
- Academic
Affiliation
- Contact
Information
- Title of Paper
- Requested Panel
- Abstract
(please limit abstracts to 300 words)
- Audiovisual
Requests
All proposals
must be received by
March 10, 2010.
Please see the MLA website for the complete
call.
Kean University will host the 2nd.
International
Conference on American Drama
29-30
October 2010
1000
Morris Avenue • Union, NJ 07083
908-737-KEAN (5326)
Kean's Theater Department
will be producing Our Town
with a professional director from NYC, and a
conference will be built around this that focuses on American drama and
culture. Send
proposals to Jan
Balakian.
Deadline
for submission of abstracts--now extended
to: 12 March 2010.
The
campus is a short distance from Newark International Airport, and with
a train to NYC on campus, so you will also have the opportunity to see
a
New York Play of your choice.
Suggested
papers/panels on the following:
*Reading
Our Town from a variety of
approaches
*A
panel that reads an American play from a variety of approaches
*Culture,
History, and/or Politics in American Drama
*American
Women Playwrights
*Ethnic-American
Playwrights
*Contemporary
American Playwrights
*If
you have personal contacts to playwrights and can invite them,
please
do so!
*Successful
approaches to teaching an American play
*
Jersey as a locale for American plays
*Performance
and American Theater
*Reading
of a new American Play
To
reserve a room, please contact Hilton Newark Airport,
Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com
and mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street,
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone:
908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before
and after for those coming from a distance. There will be a
shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.
To
learn more about the
Kean location and accessible train to NYC, go to the University website. Participants
should arrange to
have their books ordered to
sell/display at Kean's bookstore, which is a Barnes & Noble
store. Bob
Jungdahl is the manager and can be contacted at: kean@bkstore.com
Hungarian Journal of
English
and
American
Studies published near
the close of 2006 a special Arthur
Miller
Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005): ISSN: 12 18-7364
that contains several new essays on Miller's work--see details in the
archive link below for Special
Events/News/Releases
2007 regarding
how to order yourself a
copy.
The
Journal is meanwhile looking for further submissions: Manuscripts
should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook in all matters
of style (parenthetical citations keyed to a works-cited list).
Contributions
on history should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual
of
Style. All submissions should be sent together with a disk copy of the
article in Word 95 for Windows. All correspondence should be addressed
to the Editor, HJEAS, University of Debrecen, Pf. 73, Hungary 4010;
e-mail: abnagyzo@delfin.unideb.hu
Below are photographs of Mr.
Miller from the
9th
International Arthur Miller Conference, taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason,
University
of Oregon.
Conferences
and Panels: (Link to AMS
conference archive) (Link to ALA archive)
Thanks
to all who contributed abstracts for our panels
at the 21st
ALA
Conference
in San Francisco, CA,
May 27-30, 2010.
Details of our selections coming soon.
Contact Joshua
Polster for additional
information.
Check
out
the American
Literature Association
website for general conference details.
Jan
Balakian is organizing the
2nd International American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ
for 29-30 October, 2010--see
above
for submission details.
To reserve a room, please contact
Hilton Newark Airport,
Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com
And mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street,
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone:
908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before
and after for those coming from a distance. There will be a
shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.
Also consider putting together a
panel on Miller and O'Neill for the upcoming
International Eugene O'Neill
Conference currently in planning for Greenwich Village, NY in 2011.

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Outside the William Inge Theatre
they have
planted a tree for each past
Honoree of the
William Inge Festival
Achievement Award
who has passed on.
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The tree they planted in
Miller's
memory right outside the
William Inge Theatre in
Independence, Kansas.
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Here is the plaque at the base
of the tree.
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Current
Stage Productions
(Link to Archive)
FILM
NEWS:
- Looks like Anthony LaPaglia finally
got financing for his film
version of A View
from the Bridge.
It will be an independent production and filming will go on over the
summer, with Derick Martini in the director's seat, and LaPaglia
playing Eddie. Martini has also
written the screenplay--though he says he has stayed very faithful to
Miller's script.
- The
film version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,
directed by
Nicole
Kassell, starring Michael Douglas--though in the can, has disappeared
from view: literally.
- The
film version of The Man Who Had All the
Luck, directed by Scott
Ellis with screenplay by Rebecca Miller has also disappeared off the
radar.
- Rebecca Miller's
The
Private Lives of Pippa Lee, about a woman in Connecticut heading
for a nervous breakdown after her husband leaves her for a younger
woman opened in 2009--several reports on its autobiographical aspects,
with the Alan Arkin character (older man with three marriages under his
belt) being somewhat based on Arthur Miller.
- Charlie
Kaufman’s 2009 movie, Synecdoche,
New York, contained
as
one of its central conceits, a production of Death
of a Salesman,
performed with
a deliberately young cast.
- The
2001 movie, Plain Jane, based on
Miller's novella Homely
Girl, A Life was released in Europe in 2001 under the
title Eden, but is not
available in
the US--the screenplay was not Miller's and there have been many
changes. Reviews were not
great--so a US release is unlikely.
STAGE NEWS:
- 12-20 February University of
California at Santa Barbara Theater presents a new play by Sheri
Wilner, Kingdom
City, about a small town
thrown into uproar by a student production of Arthur Miller’s The
Crucible.
- Go to this website to vote in The Crucible as
the Idaho State University’s season opener—all votes talled at the end
of Feb.
During
2010
- The Crucible
6-24 Oct. on the Mainstage at Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, MA.
Directed by Julianne Boyd. Press Opening Sunday, October 10 at 3:00pm.
For more information, go to their website.
- A Memory of
Two Mondays 2 Sept.-17 Oct. by Eclipse
Theatre Company at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.,
Chicago. Directed by Steven Fedoruk. For more information call
(773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- Death of a Salesman
26 Aug.- 5 Sept, followed by school performances through Sept. 10, by
Weston Playhouse, 703 Main Street, Weston, VT. With Christopher Lloyd.
Evening Performances at 7:30pm, Wed., Sat., and Sun. Matinees at 2pm.
Call 802.824.5288, or check the website for more
information.
- After the
Fall, 8 July-22 Aug. by Eclipse Theatre Company at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. Directed by
Steve Scott. For more
information call (773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- The Crucible 24
May-19 June by Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London, UK. Directed by
Timothy Sheader. Call 0844 826 4242 (24 hours) for tickets or check the
website for more
information.
- All My Sons
19 May-11 Sept. (official opening 27 May) at Apollo Theatre,
Shaftesbury Ave., London, UK. Directed by Howard Davies with
Zoë Wanamaker and David Suchet. Set design by William Dudley.
- Death of a
Salesman 30 April-29 May by West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse
Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, UK. Directed by Sarah Esdaile. Call 0113
213 7700 for tickets or find out more at their website.
- All My Sons
23 April–2 May by Theatre Department in Watters Theater at
Binghamton University State University of New York. Performances on
Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sunday, May 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14,
general admission; $12, faculty/staff/seniors; and $8, students.They
plan also to travel with the production to China’s National Academy of
Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing at the end of the spring semester.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Anderson Center Box Office at
777-ARTS (2787) or by visiting their website.
- The Price 23
April-16 May by State Theatre Company of South Australia, at Dunsten
Playhouse, Adelaide. Directed by Adam Cookith, with Michael Habib and
Carmel Johnson. Designed by Alisa Paterson. Tickets $29.00-$59.00, call
BASS on 131 246, or check the website
for more information.
- All My Sons 2-26
April by The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall, 25 E. Main St.,
Cambridge, NY. Call 518-677-2495 for tickets, or check the website for more
information.
- The Price
5-27 March by The Pentacle Theatre, 324 52nd Ave. NW, Salem, OR.
Directed by Larry Roach. Check the website for more details.
- The Crucible
27 Mar.-2 May by Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (ICT), at Raven Theatre,
6152 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL. Directed by Chris Maher. Call
312-458-9780 or check the website for more
information.
- Death of a
Salesman 9 Apr.-8 May by Black Bag Productions at Blackbird
Theatre, 1600 Pauline Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI. Directed by Lynch Travis.
Tickets $10-20. Call 734-332-3848 or check the website for more
information.
- All My Sons 26
March-17 April, by
Carpenter Square Theatre, 400 W Sheridan, Oklahoma City. Directed by
Michael Payne, For tickets call 405 232-6500 or check the website for more
information.
- The Crucible
20 March 4-April by Gallery Players, 199 14th St., Brooklyn, NY.
Tickets $18 for adults, $14 for Seniors & Children 12 and under,
call TheaterMania at (212) 352-3101, or go online for this and more
information.
- The Price
4 March-4 April by Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA. Directed
by Tracy Brigden. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 8. Prices range from
$35 to $60, and $15 tickets are available for age 26 and younger and
students. Call: 412-316-1600 or check the website.
- Resurrection
Blues,
25 March-9 May by Eclipse Theatre Company at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. Directed by
Nathaniel Shaw. This will be its Chicago premier. For more
information call (773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- Death of a Salesman
19 Mar-4 April by Newnan Community Theatre Company, 24 1st Avenue,
Newnan, GA. Directed by Trey Stephens. Performances at 8:00 pm on
Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 on Sundays. Tickets are $15 for adults;
$12 for seniors (55+) and students (with ID); and $10 for children (12
and under). Call (770) 683-6282, or check the website for more information.
- Death of a
Salesman January 28 - February 21, 2010 by BoarsHead Theater,
425 South Grand Avenue, Lansing, Michigan. Tickets are available one
month prior to the opening. Call (517-484-7805) or check online.
- The Price
27 Jan.-14 Feb at Syracuse Stage and 23 Feb.-21 March at Geva Theatre
Center. A co-production between Geva Theatre Center and
Syracuse Stage. Directed by Tim Bond with Kenneth Tigar, Richard
McWilliams, Carmen Roman, and Tony DeBruno. Stage design by Scott
Bradley. Syracuse Stage is at 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY,
call 315-443-3275 for tickets, $24 to $48 or go to their website;
Geva Theatre Center is at 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester
NY. Call (585)
232-4382 for tickets: $20 to $65 or go to their website.
- All My Sons 27
Jan.-14 Feb. by PlayMakers Repertory Company, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, in the Paul Green Theatre at UNC's Center
for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Directed by Davis McCallum, with
Paul O'Brien, Ellen McLaughlin, Christian Conn, and Marianne Miller.
For more information call (919)
962-PLAY (7529) or visit the website.
- The Price
15 Jan-13 Feb. at Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK. Directed by John
Dove with Aiden Gillett, Greg Powrie, Sally Edwards and James Hayes.
Performances Tues-Sat at 7.45pm, with matinees on 20, 23, 27, 30
Jan and 3, 6 Feb at 2.30pm. Call 0131 248 4848 or check the website for more information.
- All My Sons 22
Jan.-13 Feb. by California Actors Theatre, 1250 S. Hover St., in Twin
Peaks Mall, Longmont, CA. Directed by Kim Bubon, with Robert Bubon,
David Barclay and Marian Bennett. Tickets: $10 to $15 call
303-774-1842, or check the website for more
details.
- All My Sons
8 Jan.-7 Feb. Huntingdon Theater, Main Stage, Boston, MA. Directed by
David Esbjornson with Will Lyman, Karen MacDonald, Lee Aaron Rosen and
Diane Davis. Call 617 266-0800, or check the website
for more information.
- The Crucible 22
Jan-7 Feb. by Paradise Theatre at Fishermen’s Hall, 9911 Burnham Drive
NW, Gig Harbor, WA. Directed by Jeff Richards, with Benton Melbourne,
Jeff Richards, Diane Daniels, Micheal Carr, and Jon Elston.
Performances 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets:
$20 to $10. Call (253) 851-7529, or check the website for more information.
- All My Sons 29
Jan.-7 Feb. by Nevada Conservatory Theatre at Judy Bayley Theatre,
University of Nevada, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV. Directed
by Tom Markus, with Steve Rapella, Brooks Asher, Susan Lowe, and
Savannah Smith. Set design by Heather M. Caliguire. Performances at 8
p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20-$30, call 895-2787,
or check the website for
more information.
- All My Sons
1-2
Feb. by Our American Theater Company, Seattle, WA, as part of it’s
season theme "Past is Prologue" in an ongoing effort to define and
explore the American identity through the lens of great American
theater. This is a staged reading. 1 Feb. is at Theatre Off
Jackson, 409 7th Avenue South, Seattle (check the website) and 2 Feb. is
at ArtsWest, 4711 California SW, in
West Seattle. Directed by Carys Kresny with Richard Ziman, Therese
Diekhans, Shanna Allman, Eric Riedmann, Todd Licea, Heather Hawkins,
Chris Dietz, Heather Gautschi, John Ulman and Rhys Hamlet. Both are pay
what you can. Performances begin at 7:00pm and will be followed by a
discussion with the cast, led by local playwright and theater critic,
John Longenbaugh. Call 206-937-0205 or check their website for more
information.
- A View From
the Bridge previews from 28 Dec., 2009, and opening 24 Jan.
2010 at
the Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street, New York, NY for a limited 14
week run. Directed by
Gregory Mosher with Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Hecht,
Micahel Cristofer and Santino Fontana. Scenic design by John Lee
Beatty. Call 212 239 6200 or 1-800 432 7250 for tickets and check the website
for more details. Click here
to view a review and short video of a scene from the play. Here
is another brief scene.

Special
Events/News/Releases for 2010 (Link to Archive for
past
years)

Inside the
Arthur Miller Theater at the
University of Michigan
- The first four new teaching
editions of Miller's plays commissioned by Methuen are scheduled to be
released in April; these will be All My Sons, The
Crucible, Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge.
Editions for Broken
Glass, After the Fall, The Last Yankee, The Price, and A Memory of Two Mondays
are planned for early 2011. Series editor is Enoch Brater.
- In the new (2009) Methuen editions
of Miller’s Plays, the sixth
volume now contains: Broken Glass, Mr
Peters' Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture.
- George Clooney gave his father,
Nick Clooney, a first edition of Death of a Salesman,
for his 76th birthday this year.
Recent Books on Miller (2005--current)
- Julius Novick’s Beyond the Golden Door:
Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, contains a lengthy chapter “Arthur Miller and
the
Jews,” that centers on Death of a
Salesman, but also references
After the Fall, The Price and
Broken Glass.
- Robert Paul Kolt, Robert Ward's The
Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism. Lanham, Md.:
Scarecrow Press, 2009.
- Maurene J. Hinds, Witchcraft on Trial:
From the Salem Witch Hunts to The Crucible. Berkeley Heights, NJ
: Enslow, 2009. A junior guide to events/issues.
- Jeffrey Meyers, The Genius And The
Goddess. New York: Hutchinson, 2009. A depiction of Miller and
Monroe's marriage.
- Methuen Drama has struck an
agreement with the estate of Arthur
Miller to publish a new series of scholarly editions of the
playwright's key works, which Rebecca Miller has described as "the
definitive editions for students and scholars for many years to come."
The publisher will also reissue the complete set of Miller's plays in
six volumes in early 2009, saying that while at present there are
annotated editions suitable for schools, there are no modern editions
of the plays with critical commentary aimed at a higher level.
Hopefully some of these will become available in the US.
- Jeffrey Mason, Stone
Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan Press, 2008.
- Eric Sterling Ed. Arthur Miller's Death
of a Salesman (Dialogue). Rodophi,
2008. Essays on this seminal play.
- Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller: The
Definitive Biography, is finally available in the US (from May
2009)-- it came out first in the UK in November 2008 to very positive
feedback. Here are links to two of its early reviews: Times,
Guardian.
- Neil Carson has updated his 1982
book on Miller to bring it up to Finishing
the Picture, Arthur Miller:
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Greenhaven Press’ Social
Issues in Literature series has two recent books relating to
Miller:
-- Justice in
Arthur Miller's The Crucible edited by Claudia D Johnson.
Detroit: Greenhaven, 2009
-- Suicide in
Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman edited by Alicia
Cafferty Lerner and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008.
Contents of the latter: Background on Arthur Miller. The Life and
Career of Arthur Miller / Stephen A. Marino ; An Overview of Death of a Salesman / L.M. Domina ;
Miller and Others Comment on the impact of Death of a Salesman / Arthur
Miller, Robert Falls, and Brian Dennehy; Interviewed by Paul Solman --
Suicide and Death of a Salesman.
Willy Loman as a Tragic Hero / Robert A. Martin ; Willy Loman is Dying
Throughout the Play / Harold Bloom ; The Ambiguity of Biff's Feelings
for Willy / H.C. Phelps ; Many Factors Led to Willy's Suicide / Sighle
Kennedy ; Willy Loman had the Wrong Dreams / Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.;
Willy Loman is Undone by the American Dream / Thomas E. Porter;
Alienation from His Work Drives Willy Loman to Suicide / Paul Blumberg
; Miller Uses Objects to Convey Failure and Other Themes / Marianne
Boruch ; Death of a Salesman in China / Arthur Miller ; A Student
Responds Emotionally to Death of a Salesman / Meredith Kopald --
Contemporary Perspectives on Suicide. Suicide Rates Rise across the
Globe / The Economist ; A Documentary about Suicide Sparks Debate /
Killian Fox ; The Ethics of Physician-assisted Suicide / Renske Heddema
; Involvement Therapy Helps Suicide Survivors Cope / Bob Condor ;
Raising Awareness of Elder Suicide / Ezra Ochshorn.
- Silima Nanda's Faces of Miller Women,
was published in New Delhi, India : Mittal Publications, 2007 (try D.
K. Agencies to get a copy: www.dkagencies.com).
- Enoch Brater Ed. Arthur Miller's Global
Theater. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2007. Collection of
essays.
- Harold Bloom has been busy putting
out several collections of
essays he has culled from a variety of sources (most of these essays
have been printed elsewhere, but are handily collected here in these
one-stop sources)—some are earlier editions that have been updated or
expanded. Of interest to Miller scholars might be:
--Arthur
Miller. Philadelphia:
Chelsea House, 2003.
Contents: Introduction / Harold
Bloom -- Biography of Arthur Miller /
Cookie Lommel -- Arthur Miller : An Introduction / Neil Heims -- The
Action and its Significance : Arthur Miller's Struggle with Dramatic
Form / Orm Overland -- Miller and Things / Marianne Boruch -- From Honors at Dawn to Death of a Salesman : Marxism and
the Early Plays of Arthur Miller / Helge Normann Nilsen.
--Arthur
Miller.
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007.
Contents: Arthur Miller's The
Crucible and the Salem Witch
Trials: A Historian's View / Edward
S. Morgan -- The Wooster Group, Arthur Miller, and The Crucible / David Savran -- All My Sons and Paternal Authority
/ James A. Robinson -- Unsafe Convictions: Unhappy Confessions in The Crucible / Valerie Lowe -- Death of a Salesman and American
Leadership: Life Imitates Art / John S. Shockley -- Issues of Identity
in Broken
Glass: A Humanist
Response to a Postmodern World / Susan C.W. Abbotson -- Personality
Wins the Day: Death of a Salesman
and Popular Sales Advice Literature / Brenda Murphy -- A Portrait of
Arthur Miller / Jeffrey Meyers -- Death
of a Salesman vs. Columbia
Pictures: the Strange Case of Career of a Salesman / Kevin
Kerrane -- Finishing the Picture: Arthur Miller, 1915-2005 / Laurence
Goldstein -- Miller's Tale: The Playwright Drew a Line between Reaching
Out and Selling Out / Wendy Smith -- Arthur Miller and the Art of the
Possible / Steven R. Centola.
--Arthur
Miller's
Death of a Salesman. New
York : Chelsea House Publishers, 2007
Contents: Memory: Miller / Peter
Szondi -- Rhythm between Fathers and
Sons: Death
of a Salesman /
Leah Hadomi -- Family Values in Death
of a Salesman / Steven R.
Centola -- The Crisis of Authenticity
: Death
of a Salesman and the
Tragic Muse / Stephen Barker -- Arthur Miller: Poet / Christopher
Bigsby -- Death of a Salesman at
Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller / Colby H. Kullman -- Miller's
Poetic Use of Demotic English in Death
of a Salesman / Frank
Ardolino -- Death of a Salesman at Fifty: Still
"coming home to roost" / Terry Otten -- Shame, Guilt, Empathy, and the
Search for Identity in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / Fred Ribkoff
-- Setting the Scene : Death of a
Salesman and After the Fall
/ Austin E. Quigley
--Arthur
Miller's
The Crucible. New York :
Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
Contents: Introduction / Harold
Bloom -- The
Crucible / Edward Murray --
History and Other Spectres in Arthur Miller's The Crucible / E. Miller Budick --
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
and the Salem WTrials: A Historian's View / Edmund S. Morgan --
Re(dis)covering the Witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Feminist Reading /
Wendy Schissel -- Conscience and Community in An Enemy of the
People and The Crucible / Thomas P. Adler -- The Crucible in history / Arthur
Miller -- The Crucible to A Memory of Two
Mondays / Terry
Otten -- Interrogating The Crucible: Revisiting the Biographical,
Historical and Political Sources in Arthur Miller's Play / Stuart
Marlow -- Poetry and Politics in / Stephen A. Marino -- 'The
CrucibleThe Crucible' /
Christopher Bigsby.
- Alan M. Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The
Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2007, contains a chapter “Arthur
Miller's Missing Chapter” that considers Miller as a Marxist and his
relationship to socialism.
- Leslie Goss Erickson’s Re-visioning of the
Heroic Journey in Postmodern Literature : Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez,
Arthur Miller, and American Beauty. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,
2006, contains a chapter discussing Death
of a Salesman.
- Ryder Jordan-Finnegan’s Individuation and the
Power of Evil on the Nature of the Human Psyche: Studies in C.G. Jung,
Arthur Miller, and Shakespeare. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,
2006, contains a discussion of After
the Fall.
- Chris Bigsby’s Remembering and
Imagining the Holocaust : the Chain of Memory. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006, contains a chapter “Arthur Miller:
The Rememberer.”
- Powers, Retha and Kathy Kiernan,
eds. This Is My
Best: Great
Writers Share Their Favorite Work. San Francisco: Chronicle,
2005, contains extracts from Salesman
in
Beijing and Miller’s commentary on why he judges this to be his
favorite writing. He states, “I can’t think of another work of mine
that gave me as much pleasure in the writing as this one did,”
explaining the reason largely being he had not been intentionally
writing it for publication, but just to “keep the days from melting
into one another incoherently” (324). He asserts that “in spirit” he
feels this book contains some of his best work, in that it allows us to
see his enthusiasm (324).
- Couple of recent introductory
works: Amy Dunkleberger's A
Student's Guide to
Arthur Miller. Berkeley
Heights, NJ : Enslow, 2005, and Richard
Andersen's Arthur
Miller. New York: Marshall
Cavendish Benchmark, 2005.