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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Miller, Arthur (1915—)

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Miller, Arthur (1915—) Arthur Miller is probably America's most famous living and most enduring playwright. From the production of his first play in the 1930s through the 1990s, Miller h... Read more

Biography (4)

Arthur Miller

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Biography EssayArthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an ac... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller (born 1915), American playwright, novelist, and film writer, is considered one of the major dramatists of 20th-century American theater.Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an actress. Although... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller is one of the major dramatists of the twentieth century. He has earned this reputation during a more than sixty-year career in which he wrote his first plays as an undergraduate at the U... Read more

Essays & Analysis (15)

Critical Essay by C. W. E. Bigsby

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Critical Essay by C. W. E. Bigsby In many ways … The Price seems to mark a return to the world of Joe Keller and Willy Loman. Once again, it appears, we are invited to witness the struggles of ... Read more

Critical Essay by Irving Jacobson

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Critical Essay by Irving Jacobson Arthur Miller's short stories "Monte Sant' Angelo" and "I Don't Need You Any More" share a supplementary relationship... Read more

Critical Essay by June Schlueter

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Critical Essay by June Schlueter When the twentieth century is history and American drama viewed in perspective, the plays of Arthur Miller will undoubtedly be preserved in the annals of dramatic lite... Read more

Critical Essay by Orm Överland

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Critical Essay by Orm Överland The process of playwriting is given a peculiar wavelike rhythm in Miller's own story of his efforts to realize his intentions from one play to the other. T... Read more

Critical Essay by Lawrence D. Lowenthal

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Critical Essay by Lawrence D. Lowenthal [Incident at Vichy] is an explicit dramatic rendition of Sartre's treatise on Jews, as well as a clear structural example of Sartre's definition o... Read more

Critical Essay by C. J. Gianakaris

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Critical Essay by C. J. Gianakaris The original title Arthur Miller chose for his play of 1949 was The Inside of His Head. But before the drama finally was produced or published, it had been rechriste... Read more

Critical Essay by C.w.e. Bigsby

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Critical Essay by C.w.e. Bigsby [In a sense], Miller could be said to have paved the way for that revival of the American theatre which started in 1959, for like O'Neill before him he was a pla... Read more

Critical Essay by Marvin Kitman

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Critical Essay by Marvin Kitman It is hard for me to say whether I liked [Playing for Time] itself. Ice cream is something you like, vanilla or chocolate. The movie was a morbid, frequently horrifying... Read more

Critical Essay by Neil Carson

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Critical Essay by Neil Carson An individual's assessment of Miller as a playwright will depend,… on his own biases and presuppositions. If he is primarily interested in theatrical experi... Read more

The Life and Times of Arthur Miller

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"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action""(Brainyquote). Arthur Miller, novelist, playwright, and non-fiction writer... Read more

Arthur Miller and Nathaniel Hawthorne Compared

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Arthur Miller and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote novels that made society reflect upon itself. These two great American authors tried to discreetly teach society to learn from history and try not to make ... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Playwrights are not often considered as influential contributors to literature in the United States--and in fact, very few American playwrights have ever achieved international fame. However, Ar... Read more

Characters' Morals and Values in "All My Sons"

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In the play "All my Sons" Miller tries to teacher us or correct us on how we live our lives. He does this by showing the different morals, both good and bad, and interests the characters in the play h... Read more

Joe as a Tragic Hero in "All My Sons"

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In the play `All My Sons', Joe Keller is the protagonist who unknowingly commits a terrible crime. In this essay I am going to discuss whether I think this man could be seen as a tragic hero. A trag... Read more

Critical Lens

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Jennifer Rappel 12/20/05 Ms. Bernaschina Period 1 Critical Lens "Truth has no meaning when men believe only what they want to believe." This conflict arises in many pieces of litera... Read more