Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The tradition of social drama
- 3 The early plays
- 4 All My Sons
- 5 Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller
- 6 Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible
- 7 A View from the Bridge
- 8 The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism
- 9 Miller's 1970s "power" plays
- 10 Miller in the eighties
- 11 Miller in the nineties
- 12 Arthur Miller and the cinema
- 13 Arthur Miller's Fiction
- 14 Critic, criticism, critics
- 15 Arthur Miller
- Index
11 - Miller in the nineties
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The tradition of social drama
- 3 The early plays
- 4 All My Sons
- 5 Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller
- 6 Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible
- 7 A View from the Bridge
- 8 The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism
- 9 Miller's 1970s "power" plays
- 10 Miller in the eighties
- 11 Miller in the nineties
- 12 Arthur Miller and the cinema
- 13 Arthur Miller's Fiction
- 14 Critic, criticism, critics
- 15 Arthur Miller
- Index
Summary
In 1990 Arthur Miller was seventy-five years old. He might have been forgiven for settling into a cosy retirement. Henrik Ibsen wrote his last play at seventy-one while Samuel Beckett produced little after he was sixty. His public career had already lasted forty-six years, longer than those of Chekhov, Strindberg, Brecht, O'Neill, or Williams. Yet the 1990s proved his most prolific period since the 1960s. By the middle of the decade he had written three new plays, a film script for The Crucible, which began shooting in late 1995, and a novella published as Homely Girl, in the United States, and Plain Girl, in the United Kingdom. He continued to monitor the political situation, writing articles to The New York Times, supporting censored and imprisoned writers and traveling widely. He was, in other words, what he had been for the previous five decades, an active participant in theatrical, political, and social life.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller , pp. 168 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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