Description
Category:Literature- DramaDramaDrama-Dra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Uk | ISBN: 9781408106853 | Pages: 0
Miller Plays: 6 is the final volume in Methuen Drama s acclaimed series of work by Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as the greatest American dramatist of our age (Evening Standard). Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002 and 2004), it is the first ever publication of Miller s final play, Finishing the Picture. Inspired by his experience during the filming of The Misfits with
his then wife Marilyn Monroe, the play was completed and produced at
the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, just months before the playwright s death
in Feburary 2005.
Broken Glass (1994) is set in Brooklyn in 1938 and
intertwines a woman s obsession with the news from Germany that
government thugs are smashing Jewish stores, with her strange
relationship with her husband. It balances private lives with public
morality. . . it is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion. (Daily Telegraph). Mr Peter s Connections
(1998) is an unforgettable journey through one man s mind at a time of
suspended consciousness, where the living and dead intermingle in his
memory. Resurrection Blues is Miller s astonishing black comedy
set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics
and the predatory nature of a media-saturated culture.
The volume also features a chronology of the writer s work and an introduction by Enoch Brater, professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan.
About the Author
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. His first theatrical success occurred in 1947 with All My Sons, which earned him the Drama Critics Circle Award. In 1949, Death of a Salesman was given the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Play. The Crucible won another Tony Award for Best Play four years later. His other plays include A View From the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, Broken Glass and Mr. Peters Connections. In 2001, he received The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award.Mr. Miller died on Feb. 10, 2005 at the age of 89.