Arthur Miller’s first success came in 1947 with All My Sons for which he won the New York Drama Critics Circle award. Although it lacked the originality of some of his later works, this family drama, which told the story of a factory owner who caused the death of several American pilots during World War I by selling defective parts to the government, dealt with issues of guilt and dishonesty that Miller would revisit and expand upon in some of his more memorable plays.

His next play, Death of a Salesman, stunned audiences with its brilliance and was quickly earmarked as a classic of the modern theatre. It also sparked heated debates over the true nature of tragedy. Some critics criticized Miller for infusing the play with a deep sense of pity for the commonplace salesman Willy Loman. They insisted that Willy was a "little man" and therefore not worthy of the pathos reserved for such tragic heroes as Oedipus and Medea. Miller, however, argued that the tragic feeling is invoked whenever we are in the presence of a character, any character, who is ready to sacrifice his life, if need be, to secure one thing–his sense of personal dignity. And the "little" salesman was determined to do just that, no matter what the cost.

Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for Death of a Salesman. He has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the American Theatre, and his plays, a fusion of naturalistic and expressionistic techniques, continue to be widely produced.

After the Fall; A Play in Two Acts
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The Archbishop’s Ceiling; The American Clock; Two Plays by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$8.95 The Archbishop’s Ceiling is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where hidden listening devices are more than symbolic methods of thought control. In the former palace of the archbishop, the four main characters play out a complex artistic, political, and sexual drama with a constant eye to the ceiling, which may or may not have been "modernized." In The American Clock, Miller paints a sweeping canvas of the Great Depression of the thirties, indelibly capturing both the bafflement and despair of people deprived overnight of their livelihood and dreams.

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The Crucible; A Play in Four Acts by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$7.95

The Crucible; Screenplay by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$12.95 The masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Paul Scofield. Set during the witch hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, The Crucible recounts the vengeance, mass hysteria, and collective evil that poisoned this small town. photos, some in color.

Danger: Memory! by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$5.95

Death of a Salesman by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$7.95 In this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Willy Loman, a small-time salesman, finds himself put out to pasture, having never done anything very remarkable with his life. His attempts to hold onto his dreams and self-esteem in the face of this disturbing reality are at once pathetic and tragic. A classic of the modern stage.

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Incident at Vichy; A Play by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$8.95 The Last Yankee; With a New Essay about Theatre Language by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$7.50 Misfits: Original Screenplay (Film Scripts Series) by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$19.95 The Price; A Play by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$7.95

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$7.95 Lyman Felt is in his late fifties. Driving down Mount Morgan in the snow, he crashes his car and is taken to a hospital. Summoned to his bedside are his daughter and his two wives. Now Lyman’s past, and his appetites, have caught up to him. Comical, poignant, and provocative, The Ride Down Mount Morgan is Miller’s first full-length play in a decade.

A View from the Bridge; A Play in Two Acts with a New Introd. by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$8.95

The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$17.95 Timebends; A Life by: Miller, Arthur Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price of….$14.95 Telling his life story with humor and passion–displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired writers this country has ever produced–Miller recalls his boyhood, his education, the formation of his political outlook, his career successes and failures, and the remarkable variety of people, both obscure and famous, in his life.

Film Adaptations The Crucible – starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winnonna Ryder Death of a Salesman – starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich

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