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and Special events, as well as links to archives for
past events.
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detailed
as possible; include both current and past events so people can use
this
as an archive. Send information to
Sue Abbotson.
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upcoming
events on this page--otherwise you can link to separate pages to see
past
conference papers, productions and events, thus the material is
archived
without this page becoming too large. Please feel free to inform
us of past events to add to these archives as well as anything else
that is coming up.
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.
Call For Papers
American Literature Association
Location and Dates: San
Francisco, CA. May 27-30, 2010
The Arthur Miller Society will be
hosting two panels at the 2010 ALA
Conference. Participants will be selected with the primary goal of
providing innovating and illuminating work on the following theme:
1st Panel Theme: Intertextual
Exchange
The Five Drama Societies – the
American Theatre and Drama Society, the
Susan Glaspell Society, the Arthur Miller Society, the Eugene O’Neill
Society, and the Thornton Wilder Society – will present a series of
panels and roundtable discussions on the theme of Intertextual
Exchange, conceived in the broadest sense. For this collaborative
series, The Arthur Miller Society seeks 15-minute papers that explore
direct and less overt textual connections between Miller (the
playwright, his plays and productions) and other authors of various
mediums. Preference will be given to submission topics of interest to
the other dramatist societies involved.
2nd Panel--Open Topic
Please direct all
proposals and queries to:
Joshua Polster
Emerson College
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 250 words)
- Audiovisual
Requests
All proposals must be received
by December 15th 2009.
Please see the ALA 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: 4 Feb. 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 below
under Special
Events/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 Conf., taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason,
University
of Oregon.
Conferences
and Panels: (Link to AMS
conference archive) (Link to ALA archive)
Thanks
to all who attended our panels
at 20th
ALA
Conference in Boston, MA.
May 21-24, 2009 at Westin Copley Place.
Check
out
the American
Literature Association
website for general conference details.
CFP above for the two Miller
Society Panels for
May 2010 in San Francisco, CA.
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
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.
- The
film version of The Man Who Had All the
Luck, directed by Scott
Ellis with screenplay by Rebecca Miller has backed off release until
2009--no specific date as yet.
- 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 out of competition at the
Berlin Film Festival on
9 Feb., and its US release date is
set for 23 October.
- 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.
During
2010
- A View From
the Bridge, opening November 2010 (pending rights) by Eclipse
Theatre Company at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.,
Chicago. For more information call (773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- Resurrection
Blues, opening July 2010 by Eclipse Theatre Company at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. For more
information call (773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- The Crucible
24 May-19 June by Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, London, UK. Call
020 7486 1933 for more details or check the website.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After the
Fall, opening March 2010 by Eclipse Theatre Company at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. For more
information call (773) 404-7336 or visit the website.
- All My Sons
1-2 Feb. by Our American Theater Company (OAT Co.), Seattle, WA. The
staged readings will be held at Theatre Off Jackson for one night, and
at a yet-to-be-announced venue on a second night. All OAT performances
are pay-what-you-will. More information at their website.
- 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.
- All My Sons
8 Jan.-7 Feb. Huntingdon Theater, Main Stage, Boston, MA. Directed by
David Esbjornson. Call 617 266-0800, or check the website
for more information.
- The Price
27 Jan.-14 Feb. A co-production between Geva Theatre Center and
Syracuse Stage at Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester
NY. New subscriptions go on sale May 18 2009, and single tickets will
be available Aug. 3 for $20 to $65. Directed by Tim Bond. For
information, call (585)
232-4382 or go to the 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. 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. 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.
During 2009
- A View From
the Bridge previews from 28 Dec., opening 24 Jan. 2010 at
the Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street, New York, NY. Directed by
Gregory Mosher with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson playing Eddie
Carbone and Catherine.
- All My Sons
4-12 Dec. by Parkside Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
900 Wood Road, Kenosha, Wi. Directed by Cheatham. Tickets $15 for
adults, $11 for seniors and $7 for students. For tickets, visit
www.uwp.edu keyword tickets, or call (262) 595-2564.
- Death of a
Salesman 11 Oct.-5 Dec. (with previews 6-10 Oct.) by
Raven Theatre Company, 6157 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL. Directed by
Michael Menendian with JoAnn Montemuro and Chuck Spencer. Tickets
$20-25 and $15 for previews, call 773-338-2177 or check the website for more information.
- Death of a
Salesman 20-29 Nov. Poor Thespians Productions at the Gillioz,
Springfield, Missouri. Performances on November 20th and 21st and
November 27th & 28th at 8:00 pm, November 22nd and 29th at 3:00 pm.
Admission $5, for more information call 863-9491 or check the theater's
website.
- Death of a Salesman
18-22 Nov. by Riverland Theater, at Frank W. Bridges Theatre, Riverland
Community College, 1900 Eighth Avenue Northwest, Austin, MN. Directed
by Jerry Girton, with Shane May and Jessica Beske. Performances at
7.30pm, with Sunday matinee at 2pm. Tickets: $12, call: (507) 433-0595,
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Monday-Friday.
- Death of a Salesman
20-22 Nov. by Roane State Playmakers at Roane State Community College,
276 Patton Lane, Harriman, TN. Tickets: general $10, and students$7.
Performances at 7 p.m., with a matinee at 2 p.m., on Nov. 22. For more
info about performances, contact Michael Golebiewski at 865-882-4589.
- The Crucible
13-21 Nov. by Theatre Tulsa and Clark Theatre at Liddy Doenges Theatre
of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E. Second St. Tulsa, OK.
Directed by Frank Gallagher, with Olivia Shadid, Emma Francois, Abigail
Whitson and Sarah Woldum. Performances at 8pm, Sunday matinee at 2pm.
Tickets, call 596 7111 or online.
Special
Events/Releases 2009 (Link to Archive for
past
years)

Inside the new
Arthur Miller Theater at the
University of Michigan
- 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.
- AUCTION: Bloomsbury Auctions in New
York is offering the Burt
Britton Collection of Self-Portraits on September 24, 2009. This
collection includes a cartoon-like, pen and ink self-portrait by Arthur
Miller. You can view the lot here--estimated
price $2000-$3000.
- Chicago’s Eclipse Theatre Company
has chosen Arthur Miller for
its "One Playwright, One Season." 2010 Season, and will be producing After the Fall,
Resurrection Blues and A View from the Bridge.
Call 773-404-7336 or check their website
for more information.
- May
30, L.A. Theatre
Works will air its
production of The
Crucible by Arthur Miller, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy
Keach. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on
Saturday from 10pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be
streamed on demand at www.latw.org.
L.A. Theatre Works' radio theater series can also be heard on the
following stations (check local listings for broadcast times): 89.7
WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM
KRTS "Marfa Public Radio" in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM
in Albuquerque; 91.5 FM, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan;
90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, MO; 90.7 FM KVNO in Omaha; 94.1 KPFA in
Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; and 89.1 KUOR in
Redlands.
- Series of talkbacks offered
alongside TACT's current production
of Incident at
Vichy, all free and immediately follow the respective
performance of the play:
Wednesday,
March 18
REMEMBERING ARTHUR MILLER: A
SISTER'S MEMORY
Born Joan Maxine Miller, Joan
Copeland is an award-winning stage and
film actress and the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller.
Interviewed by Dr. Stephen Marino, editor of The Arthur Miller Journal
and adjunct professor at St. Francis College.
Wednesday,
March 25
STORIES OF SURVIVAL
Stirring stories of hope and
survival told straight from the heart by
Holocaust survivors and their families. Moderated by Larry Keith.
Monday, March
30
AN EVENING WITH TOVAH FELDSHUH
Four-time Tony Award nominee
Tovah Feldshuh discusses a successful
theatrical career rooted in Jewish experiences and values.
Wednesday,
April 1
NEVER FORGET: REFLECTIONS ON THE
HOLOCAUST IN ART
A post-Holocaust generation of
artists, writers and actors continue to
commemorate one of history's most horrific events in deeply personal,
highly original ways. Join our panel of artists including Harris Yulin
(1973 television version of Incident at Vichy, 2001 Broadway revival of
The Diary of Anne Frank). Moderated by Joan Rosenbaum, director of the
Jewish Museum.
- Baruch Performing Arts Center, New
York City. The Great Works
Reading Series will be presented in the Engelman Recital Hall on
Thursday, March 12 at 12:45 p.m. and Monday, March 16 at 1:30 p.m. and
6 p.m. This season’s selection includes the one-act Arthur Miller play
"I Can’t Remember Anything", as well as two additional one-acts by
Harold Pinter. Acclaimed actors Graeme Malcolm and Mary Beth Peil (of
Dawson’s Creek fame) will be featured in the readings.
- Arthur Miller is being honored at
Manitoba Theatre Centre’s (MTC)
ninth annual Master Playwright Festival, Winnipeg. Recognizing his
influential career the MillerFest will take place from January 22 –
February 8, 2009. Professional theatre companies, university theatre
programs, cultural and community theatre groups and a local independent
cinema will present several full productions, including The Price, All My Sons,
Miller’s version of Enemy of the People,
Clara, Some
Kind of Love Story, and Playing for Time
as a staged radio play. There will also be readings of The Ride Down Mt.
Morgan, Resurrection Blues, and The Man Who Had All the
Luck, and screenings, including The Misfits, Focus,
and The Crucible.
MillerFest will also provide a broader context of the playwright’s life
and work through the MillerUnbound free events series that will include
a lecture, a directors’ panel and a screening of a documentary. For
more information on the history of the company and details of the
festival please visit their website. Details of
individual productions are given above.
- The
Crucible
24-25 Jan. as part of Brave New World Repertory Theatre's sixth annual
Play Reading Salon Series. Directed by Claire Beckman at The Old Stone
House in Park Slope, NY.
Recent Books on Miller
- 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
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