Here we provide annotated links to sites that are
related to Arthur Miller and his work (also check out the teaching
guides section at the top of our works page that offers several links
not referenced here that lend themselves specifically to teaching
several of the plays). Please write in if you know of anything useful
that we might add (please no sales sites). Some sites
reviewed
here have since disappeared--I try and keep these up to date, so do let
me
know
if a link is not working or if you know to where something has been
moved: e-mail Sue
Abbotson.
Arthur Miller Fansite.
Here's a new offering, as yet a little slight and a lot of unrelated
ads, but it may build up more material. It did give me a useful
link to buy a copy of the Sidney Lumet A View from the Bridge on DVD! A
brief (at times misleading) biography, a couple of pics, links to some
you.tube interviews of Miller with Charlie Rose and Jonathan Miller,
and lists of unreferenced quotes of Miller's words (from life and
plays) and titles of his main works.
Links
and lessons. A fairly comprehensive
selection
of other links here to sites that have Miller biography, and specific
materials
on Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and All My Sons—some
of these contain some useful lesson plan material—especially the All
My Sons study guide for GCSE level (that would be grade 8-10 in the
US). I'm putting a link to this one on our lesson plans page too.
New York Times review of the new Long Wharf Theatre's 2007 production of The Price.
Miller Archives: University of Delaware library Special Collections Department. Richard Hoffman-Brooklyn theater collector and bookdealer, built the Arthur Miller Collection over a period of fifty years. Contains play scripts, screenplays, photographs, correspondence, financial documents, posters, flyers, periodicals, journals, theatre programs, news clippings, and ephemera. The collection is open for research, and you can check out a list of their holdings on-line.
"The Death of Arthur Miller," where you can hear a song written to commemorate Miller's passing.
Oates Article Joyce Carol Oates's article on Death of a Salesman can be found on this Oates web page.
NPR's On Point: Death of a Playwright, aired the evening following Miller's death on Feb. 11th 2005. Harold Bloom, Marsha Norman, Jack Beattie and Sue Abbotson discusss Miller's legacy.
A link to the BBC archives where one can hear the writer's voice when he was around 26 years of age.
"Bulldog" on The Connection, Eli Wallach reads Miller's short story "The Bulldog," followed by an interview between Dick Gordon and the author, talking about the story, the state of American theater, and his role as a writer.
Miller's use of puns in Salesman Rather playful site; at times it's a stretch, but keep reading, as there are a few gems in here.
General Info Charles A. Carpenter has put together an excellent resource here which gives you a descriptive chronology of Miller's plays, theatrical career, and dramatic theories , and good starter bibliographies for both primary and secondary sources. Elsewhere, the site also offers an historic overview of Western theater which allows you see where Miller comes in that timeline and development.
Resurrection Blues Now seems to be defunct--anyone know if it's been archived anywhere? Mike Christenson put together a great site to share info. and views of Miller's late play--he linked you to the Guthrie site as well (where the play premiered), which had plot summary, quotes and other useful info.
Book about radio drama A website telling you about a new book by Howard Blue, "Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist" (Scarecrow Press, 2002), The book includes significant discussion of Arthur Miller in his little-known role as radio dramatist. It also deals with Miller's, Norman Rosten's (whom Miller characterized as his best friend), and other writers' experience with the McCarthy era blacklist. The discussion about Miller is partly based on an personal interview that Blue did with Miller a few years ago.
The Crucible Now seems to be defunct--anyone know if it's been archived anywhere? A website which was put together by the folk presenting the Broadway revival of The Crucible with Laura Linney and Liam Neeson--this had lots of goodies though beyond lots of great information on the 2002 production--study guides, biographical material on Miller, interviews, study guides, reviews of past productions and extracts from various Miller scholarship. Great site from the start, and they kept adding more.
Audio Tapes Check out the L. A. Theater Works catalog to order audio tapes or CDs of various Miller plays. They currently have All My Sons,Broken Glass, The Crucible, View From The Bridge, The Price, and After the Fall, Incident at Vichy and keep adding to the list so check them out at their website.
American Drama (Having trouble downloading this) This is the American Drama journal's web site, and it offers abstracts from its special edition on Miller (6.1), as well as the full text of two useful interviews by Steven Centola from earlier issues. These interviews concentrate on the plays of the 1990s and 1980s respectively.
Death of a Salesman (Unsure if this is still working) This is the Eugene O'Neill Theater's site that offers a wealth of material about Death of a Salesman to go with their 1999 production of the play. Along with information on the O'Neill production, with biographies of the cast and creative team, you can access reviews of this production and key past productions, a variety of information on Miller, and study guide materials. You can even order tickets and souvenirs. On Miller they offer a fairly detailed chronology, brief bio. and biblio. of major critical works, and the script of Matthew Roudané's 1985 interview with the playwright. Under "study guide" you can access fairly lengthy excerpts of various books and articles relating to Death of a Salesman by Miller and other scholars. Study guides for students and teachers, and transcripts of on-line chats with Miller and Brian Dennehy. All told, one of the most useful sites on Miller currently on the web.
Salesman Concordances Did you know the name Willy is spoken 128 times in the play, but Linda only 22? This is a database with all of the acting dialogue (N.B. none of the stage directions etc.) from Death of a Salesman in a full concordance format in which every wors is indexed and connected to its textual context. You can see alphabetical word lists, frequency of words, and the text of the acting dialogue. A little confusing at first to navigate, but an interesting research tool once you get the hang of it..
General Miller Info. This site offers a very brief five-paragraph biography by Malcolm Goldstein. A very basic introduction--doesn't even mention half the plays and is especially sketchy on recent years. The bibliography lists the obvious, and less than half of the links actually work. Of those that do, the most useful is the one to the Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/, which gives production details of a number of TV and film projects at home and abroad, along with some fun trivia. Others include audio files of clips from The Crucible, a review of a 1995 theater production of The Crucible, a sketchy interview that appeared on Mr. Showbiz, and a 1988 New York Times article by Richard Bernstein on Kazan and Miller.
Curtain UpCurtain Up offers an interesting site which is easy to navigate. It gives some basic background to Miller, but, most importantly, a whole collection of reviews of recent productions of Miller's plays in New York and Williamstown, MA. A useful study tool.
The Crucible Historian Margo Burns tries to separate the fact from the fiction in Miller's play, pointing out historical details which differ from Miller's artistic recreation of events. This is part of an historical site with an interest in 17th century colonist New England. Burns lists historical inaccuracies in The Crucible, and points to resources where these details can be confirmed. She ends by asking some interesting questions regarding how inaccurate historical recreations (often created in the name of art) might impact the historical awareness of the reader/viewer.
Kennedy Center Offers a sketchy biography of Miller, outlining why he won a Kennedy Award, with a link to a photograph of him attending the award ceremony.
Catharton Authors
Now
seems to be defunct--anyone know if it's been moved somewhere else?
Contained a number of links (all here) to other Miller pages and
sites,
as well as access to a Miller message board and chat room (which was
well utilized for a time and contained some interesting queries), and
notebooks
specifically on The Crucible and
Death of a Salesman (the
latter were mostly used by desperate High School students--who gave an
interesting insight into how the younger generation approach these
plays, when they
are not simply bad-mouthing each other off in appalling
English!). When this site last changed its address and format,
interest in it seemed to fall off and there was little activity in its
final year.
Steinbeck's defence Transcript of John Steinbeck's defense of Miller's refusal to be bullied by the HUAC, which originally appeared in Esquire, June 1957. (N.B. This is a new link as the old one expired)
HUAC Info. A British site which offers a sketchy biography of Miller, with an emphasis on the HUAC years, offering links to further pages on key terms and on those involved. Nice photograph of Miller with Kazan.
The Price Now seems to be defunct--anyone know if it's been archived anywhere? This was a useful site built around the1999/2000 production of The Price, directed by James Naughton. It offered a brief biography, chronology, extracts from Timebends, a transcript of Matthew Roudané's Michigan Quarterly Review 24 (1985) interview with Miller, and they were building a nice study guide for the play.
Basic Info. Offers a basic biography of Miller into the 1960s (interspersed with quotes from Miller's writing), as well as a selected bibliography and a list of primary titles (ignore the reference to GILLBURY, 1993--it must be a misprint of one of the working titles for Broken Glass--Gellburg.)
Reference Guide. Offers links to pages on Miller and Kazan, America in the 1950s, and the Arthur Miller edition of American Drama (see above). Also a brief list of main primary works (up to 1994), and a very selected bibliography, with separate sections on Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. There is a brief comparison of Willy Loman and John Proctor by Robert Hogan, and a couple of study questions. Maybe useful as a first step for high schoolers.
Death of a
Salesman.
Kind of like a pared down Coles Notes, with the added possibility of
feedback,
this from the homework online group and is definitely
geared
to new students of the play. They give a summary and explanation
of the play, brief analyses of the main characters, discussions of
themes,
motifs, and structure, with a few key quotes and a very short page on
Miller.
They also provide a forum for readers to post questions and answers on
the play (although I find the Catharton groups on this more user
friendly).
There is also a store to buy copies of the play, videos, notes etc.
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