MILLER
EVENTS
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and Special
events, as well as links
to archives for
past events.
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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. Also check out the call for papers for a
special edition in 2012 focussing on The
Crucible, both here and on 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, SAMLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current
President, Josh Polster,
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.
American
Literature Association
2012--23rd Annual Conference
May 24-28, 2012
Hyatt Regency San Francisco in
Embarcadero Center
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco CA 94111
The Arthur Miller Society usually
presents two
panels--please send abstracts on any topic connected to the works of
Arthur Miller, or convey your interest, to Josh
Polster by January
15, 2012.
Check
out
the American
Literature Association
website for general conference details.
Special Double
Issue of the Arthur Miller Journal
In anticipation of the
sixtieth anniversary of the Broadway premier of The Crucible, the AMJ will publish volume 7, nos. 1
and 2, in a special double issue in the Fall of 2012. The editors
invite essays on the significance of Miller's controversial drama about
the Salem Witch Trials and the Communist Witch Hunts of the 1950s. We
are interested in essays that explore all aspects of the play: textual
analyses, performance issues, productions. We also welcome discussions
that include political, social, historical and cultural approaches, the
legacy of McCarthyism, HUAC, and blacklisting. We also anticipate new
explorations of the play's relevance to Miller's life and canon.
Deadline for submission to this edition is June 2012.
Essays should conform to the MLA Style Manual. Essays will be blind
vetted;
include your name only on a front page.
Essays and
Notes can be sent as email attachments to: Stephen
Marino.
Books for review and book reviews
can be
sent directly to the Book Review Editor: George Castellitto
Production, Film and Performance
reviews to the Performance Review
Editor: Susan Abbotson.
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 came to our panels at the 2011 American
Literature Association Annual Conference this past May. We hope you
enjoyed the interesting presentations and discussions, and hope to see
you next year in San Francisco--see CFP above.
Session
19-F Dramatizing Ideas
in the Plays of Arthur Miller
Chair
George Castellitto, Felician College
1.
"Internalizing the Jew: Otherness and Embodiment in Miller's Incident at Vichy." Lew Livesay,
Saint Peter's
College
2.
"I Still Feel – Kind of Temporary About Myself: The Self, the
Experience of Truth, and Two Visions of
Tragedy in the Works of Arthur Miller." David Palmer, Massachusetts
Maritime Academy
3.
"Stage For Action: Arthur Miller‘s Social Activist Foundation."
Chrystyna Dail, Pennsylvania State University
Session
20-B Focus on Focus:
A Panel on Arthur Miller's 1945 Novel about Anti-Semitism.
Chair
George Castellitto, Felician College
1.
"In Closer Focus: Book, Film and TV." Sue Abbotson, Rhode Island
College (with clips from the 1962 TV version)
2.
"Focus: Teaching Miller's
Neglected Work." Joint discussion by Stephen Marino, St. Francis
College, and
Joshua Polster, Emerson College
Thanks to all who attended "O'Neill in Bohemia" in
Greenwich Village, this past June. The Society presented a highly
successful panel with the following papers:
Comparative
Studies of the Works of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller
1.
Joshua Polster, Emerson College:
“Expressionism in O’Neill's The
Hairy Ape and Miller’s A
Memory of Two Mondays”
2.
Stephen Marino, St. Francis College:
“Primogeniture in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller”
3.
Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College:
“Willy Loman’s Long Night’s Journey Into Day"

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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:
- MGM has released The Misfits in
Blu-Ray--a rare occurence for a
black and white movie, however, the disc sadly contains little
additional
material.
- Actor Dougray Scott plays Arthur Miller in the recent
movie My Week with Marilyn.
- For too long even the VHS has been out of print, but now Playing for Time
was finally released on DVD on 7th Sept. 2010. Check here
for details.
- An update on Anthony La Paglia’s A View From The Bridge.
The option rights to this will soon be expiring and La Paglia seems
ready to give up on his plans to film his performance as Eddie Carbone,
although his production team have not completely given up hope that the
rights may be extended.
- 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 Sorcerer's
Apprentice (2010) with Nicholas Cage, features as a character,
an evil witch named Abigail Williams, shown in Puritan dress.
- 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:
- Missed Apollo Theatre's 2010
acclaimed All My
Sons with David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker? The production will
be released on Thursday 14 April 2011 at 10am from Digital Theatre as a
downloadable production
(or to stream) for £6.99 at their website, and is available
now as a preorder.
- Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman,
with Philip Seymour Hoffman to feature Jo Mielziner's original
stage design. Tickets now on sale for this 16 week limited engagement
(details below).
During
2012
- The Crucible 5-7
July at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool, UK. Directed by Nick Rogers with
Merseyside Academy of Drama. Call 0845 3710792 for more
information.
- Death of a Salesman
23 June-12 Aug. by Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, NSW,
Australia. Directed by Simon Stone, with Colin Friels, Toby Schmitz,
Genevieve Lemon, Emily Barclay, and Mitchell Butel. Call 612 9699 3444
or check the website
for more information.
- All My Sons
17-29 Apr. by New Stage Theatre, Jackson, MS. Call 601 948 3531 or
check the website.
- The
Crucible (Ward’s opera) opens 16 March
2012 in a joint production by Piedmont Opera and UNC School of the
Arts, in Winston-Salem, NC, with aid from an NEA grant. Call
336.725.7101 or check the website
for more information.
- Death of a Salesman
2-18 March by Curtain Call, at The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349
Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT. Directed by Brian Borowka. Call
(203)329-8207 or check the website.
- The Crucible
8-24 March at The Grand Theatre, 1575 South State Street, Salt Lake
City, UT. Directed by Mark Fossen. Call (801) 957-3322.
- All My Sons
23-25 March by Spanish Trail Playhouse, Chipley, FL. Directed by
Rosalyn Scott. Call (850) 638-9113 or check the website.
- All My Sons 8-25
Mar. by PCPA Theaterfest, Santa Maria, CA. Call 805 922 8313 or check
the website.
- The Price 28
Feb.-14 April (opening night 4 March) by Raven Theatre Company, 6157 N.
Clark Street, Chicago. Directed by Michael Menendian. Previews at 8:00
p.m., opening night: Sunday, 4 March at 7:00 p.m. "Out at Raven"
performance: 9 March. Call 773-338-2177 or check the website for more information.
- All My Sons
14-18 Mar. by McNeese Theatre, at McNeese State University, Lake
Charles, LA. Directed by Joy Pace. Call 337-475-5043 or check the website.
- The Crucible
1-4th March by Tokyo International Players (in English) at the Ebisu
Echo Theatre, Tokyo, Japan. Directed by Ed Gilmartin. Check the website for
tickets and information.
- Death of a Salesman
24 Feb.-4 March by Senior Repertory of Ohio Theatre Company in the
Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. Columbus, OH.
Tickets $10-20, call 614-258-9495 or visit the website for more information.
- Death of a Salesman
21 Feb.-11 Mar. by Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA. Call 757 627
1234 or check the website.
- The American Clock
23 Feb.-3 Mar. Walden Theatre, Louisville, KY. Directed by Lucas Adams.
Call 502 589 0084 or check the website.
- The Crucible
16-26 Feb. by Mary Moody Northern Theatre, Austin, TX. Directed by
Michelle Polgar. Call 512 448 8484 or check the website.
- All My Sons
23-25 Feb. by Averett Theatre Players, at Averett University, 420 West
Main St., Danville, VA. Call 434-791-5712 or check the website.
- Death of a Salesman
13 Feb. previews, opening 15 March-2 June, at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre, Broadway, NY. Directed by Mike Nichols with Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Linda Emond, Andrew Garfield and Finn Wittrock. Will feature a
re-creation of the original Tony Award-winning scenic design by Jo
Mielziner. Tickets went on sale Dec. 17th 2011, at Telecharge.com, or
call (212) 239-6200.
- Death of a Salesman
11-18 Feb. by The Little Theatre, St Marks Road, Torquay, Devon, UK.
Directed by John Miles. Call 01803 299330 or check the website.
- Death of a Salesman
25 Jan.-12 Feb. by Sierra Stages at Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street,
Nevada City, CA. Directed by Jeffrey Mason, with Robert Rossman, Susan
Mason, Sam Haley-Hill and Josh Triplett. Call 530 346 3210 or check the
website.
- All My Sons 10,
12 Jan., 2-4 Feb. and 11 March (other dates TBA—should run through to
the Fall) by Cameri Theater, 19 Shaul Hamelech Boulevard, Tel Aviv,
Israel (performing at Haifa Theater earlier in January, call (04) 860-
0500 or check the website).
Directed by Moshe Naor, with Leora Rivlin, Natan Detner, Yishai Golan
and Efrat Arnon. Call 03-606-0960 or check the website (it’s in Hebrew).
- All My Sons
12-28 January by the Montreal Theatre Ensemble,at the Casgrain Theatre
of John Abbott College, 21275 Lakeshore Rd., Sainte Anne de Bellevue,
Quebec, Canada. Directed by Terry Donald, with Christopher Moore,
Rebecca Croll, Peter Vrana, Adam Leblanc, Anna Hopkins, Robert di
Loreto, Aaron Turner, Stephanie McKenna, Clara Altimas, Matthew
Corneau, and Daniel DiVenere. Call 514.515.9140 or check the website.
- All My Sons 5
Jan.-12 Feb. by Live Theatre Workshop, 5317 E. Speedway,Tucson, AZ.
Directed by Glen Coffman, with Ryan Butler, Emilee Foster, Marissa
Garcia, Rhonda Hallquist, Alexander Hupp, Christopher Johnson, David
Alexander Johnston, Peg Peterson, Brian Wees and Steve Wood. Call 520
327-4242 or check the website.
Special
Events/News/Releases for 2012 (Link to Archive for
past
years)

Inside the
Arthur Miller Theater at the
University of Michigan
- The 2012 issue of the Arthur Miller Journal
will be a special double edition to commemorate the upcoming 60th
anniversary of the Broadway premier of The Crucible.
Due out in the Fall.
Recent Books on Miller (2005--current)
- Brenda Murphy's edited collection, Arthur Miller: Critical
Insights for Salem Press, 2010, contains an excellent selection
of new and reprinted essays on Miller's work, including: On Arthur
Miller / Brenda Murphy -- Biography of Arthur Miller / Carl Rollyson
and Victoria Price -- The Paris Review perspective / Richard Beck for
The Paris Review -- Best intentions far awry: the family dynamic in
Miller's All my sons and Death of a salesman / Pamela Loos -- "It's all
about the language": Arthur Miller's poetic dialogue / Stephen A.
Marino -- The freedom of others: Arthur Miller's social and political
context / Katherine Egerton -- The critical reception of Arthur
Miller's work / Jane K. Dominik -- Arthur Miller and the art of the
possible / Steven R. Centola -- Arthur Miller: un-American /
Christopher Bigsby -- All my sons and paternal authority / James A.
Robinson -- "There's no place like home": Miller's "poem," Frost's
"play" / George Monteiro -- Asking "queer questions," revealing ugly
truths: Giles Corey's subversive eccentricity in The crucible / J.
Chris Westgate -- Verse, figurative language, and myth in A view from
the bridge / Stephen A. Marino -- Uneasy collaboration: Miller, Kazan,
and After the fall / Brenda Murphy -- All about talk: Arthur Miller's
The price / Gerald Weales -- Both his sons: Arthur Miller's The price
and Jewish assimilation / James A. Robinson -- The "line to measure
from": Arthur Miller's The American clock as a lesson for the ages /
Susan C. W. Abbotson -- Coming to roost again: tragic rhythm in Arthur
Miller's Broken glass / Terry Otten -- Arthur Miller's ironic
resurrection / Jeffrey D. Mason -- The fiction of Arthur Miller /
Laurence Goldstein.
- Ramón Espejo's España y el
teatro de Arthur Miller. Alcalá de Henares: Instituto
Franklin, 2010. Offers analysis of Miller's reception in Spain,
including a comprehensive survey of major Spanish productions of his
plays since 1951 through 2009.
- Review
from the British release of Christopher Bigsby’s long awaited Arthur Miller: The
Definitive Biography Vol. 2 (1962-2005). Here
is another review, this one from Gregory Mosher.
- Joshua E. Polster's Reinterpreting the
Plays of Arthur Miller. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2010. Using
cultural semiotics and new historicism, Polster offers compelling
insights into some of Miller's seminal plays: All My Sons, Death of a
Salesman, The Crucible, and Incident at Vichy. Check the
publisher's website
for more details.
- Jim Fisher's Miller in an Hour.
New York: Smith and Kraus, 2010. Brief guide to the
dramatist designed as a quick reference for directors,
actors and dramaturges, as part of the presses new series: Playwrights
in an Hour. (112 pages). Aimed at those who know very little
about Miller.
- 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.
Just in case you are looking for a print version of Miller's final play.
- 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.
- 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, became 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.
- Susan C. W. Abbotson, A Critical Companion to
Arthur Miller, New York: Facts on File, 2007--your one-stop
encyclopedia on all things Miller! Entries on all of Miller's drama,
fiction, and much of his non-fiction, as well as guides to themes,
people and places with whom/which Miller can be connected.
- 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
new 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.