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Miller Plays: "All My Sons"; "Death of a Salesman"; The "Crucible"; A "Memory of Two Mondays"; A "View from the Bridge" v.1 (World Classics) (Vol 1)
Miller Plays All My Sons Death of a Salesman The Crucible A Memory of Two Mondays A View from the Bridge v1 - World Classics - Vol 1 Author:Arthur Miller This volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit in 1947: 'With the production of All My Sons,' wrote Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times, 'the theatre has acquired a genuine new talent.' This hit was foll... more »owed by an even greater play: Death of a Salesman. 'A great play of our day', wrote the New York Herald Tribune and the play has gone on to become the classic American tragedy of Willy Loman, a salesman who becomes disillusioned with the American dream. The Crucible(1953) was produced during the McCarthy era and became a parable of the witch-hunting practises of a government rooting out Communists. A View from the Bridge(1955) concerns the lives of longshoremen in the Brooklyn waterfront and has remained one of Miller's most produced plays. A Memory of Two Mondays, a one-act play, was written as a companion piece to A View from the Bridge."The greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard)« less