Arthur Miller (1) (1915–2005)
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The son of a well-to-do New York Jewish family, Miller graduated from high school and then went to work in a warehouse. He was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City. His plays have been called "political," but he considers the areas of literature and politics to be quite separate and vis mere has said, "The only sure and valid aim---speaking of art as a weapon---is the humanizing of man." The recurring theme of all his plays is the relationship between a man's identity and the image that society demands of him. After two years, he entered the University of Michigan, where he soon started writing plays. All My Sons (1947), a Broadway success that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947, tells the story of a son, home from the war, who learns that his brother's death was due to defective airplane parts turned out by their profiteering father. Death of a Salesman (1949), Miller's experimental yet classical American tragedy, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1949. It is a poignant statement of a man facing himself and his failure. In The Crucible (1953), a play about bigotry in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, Miller brings into focus the social tragedy of a society gone mad, as well as the agony of a heroic individual. The play was generally considered to be a comment on the McCarthyism of its time. Miller himself appeared before the Congressional Un-American Activities Committee and steadfastly refused to involve his friends and associates when questioned about them. His screenplay for The Misfits (1961), from his short story, was written for his second wife, actress Marilyn Monroe (see Vol. 3); After the Fall (1964) has clear autobiographical overtones and involves the story of this ill-fated marriage as well as further dealing with Miller's experiences with McCarthyism. In the one-act Incident at Vichy (1964), a group of men are picked off the streets one morning during the Nazi occupation of France. The Price (1968) is a psychological drama concerning two brothers, one a police officer, one a wealthy surgeon, whose long-standing conflict is explored over the disposal of their father's furniture. The Creation of the World and Other Business (1973) is a retelling of the story of Genesis, attempted as a comedy. The American Clock (1980) explores the impact of the Depression on the nation and its individual citizens. Among Miller's most recent works is Danger: Memory! (1987), a study of two elderly friends. During the 1980s, almost all of Miller's plays were given major British revivals, and the playwright's work has been more popular in Britain than in the United States of late. Miller died of heart failure after a battle against cancer, pneumonia and congestive heart disease at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 89 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) Arthur Miller, American playwright, was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. He earned an AB from the University of Michigan and began to write plays while still a student. He won the first of his many awards, the Avery Hopwood Prize of the University of Michigan, for his first play, Honors at Dawn. This was followed by many other award-winning plays. One of the best-known of these, Death of a Salesman, won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1949 as well as a Drama Critics Circle Award; it continues to be one of the most frequently performed and adapted plays of this century. Some of his other titles include The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, The Misfits, After the Fall, and Vichy. Miller also wrote several travel pieces, including In Russia and Chinese Encounters (both in collaboration with his third wife, Ingeborg Morath); a novel, Focus; and the autobiography, Timebends: A Life. Arthur Miller was married to Mary Grace Slattery in 1940. They had two children and were divorced in 1952. In 1956, he married actress Marilyn Monroe and they divorced in 1961. He married Morath in 1962 and they have two children together. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Miller Plays 1: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible / A Memory of Two Mondays / A View from the Bridge (1988) 103 eksemplarer
Eight Plays: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge / After… (1981) 44 eksemplarer
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall (1995) 22 eksemplarer
Miller Plays 2: The Misfits / After the Fall / Incident at Vichy / The Price / The Creation of the World and Other… (1988) 20 eksemplarer
Teatro 11 eksemplarer
The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller. Vol. 2 8 eksemplarer
Two-way Mirror: "Elegy for a Lady" and "Some Kind of Love Story" (Modern Plays) (1982) 8 eksemplarer
Miller Plays 4: Golden Years / The Man Who Had All the Luck / I Can't Remember Anything / Clara (1994) 7 eksemplarer
Miller Plays 6: Broken Glass; Mr Peter's Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture (World Classics):… (2009) 7 eksemplarer
The Crucible = (Die Hexenjagd): An Opera in 4 Acts [vocal score] (1963) — Playwright — 6 eksemplarer
Miller Plays 5: Last Yankee / The Ride Down Mount Morgan / Almost Everybody Wins (1995) 4 eksemplarer
Na de zondeval ; Incident in Vichy 4 eksemplarer
Todos Eran Mis Hijos & Despues De La Caida / All My Sons & After the Fall (Gran Teatro) (Spanish Edition) (2004) 3 eksemplarer
Death of a Salesman, etc 3 eksemplarer
A view from the bridge : an opera in two acts ; libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller (2002) 3 eksemplarer
Teatro. Erano tutti miei figli. Morte di un commesso viaggiatore. Il crogiuolo. Ricordo di due lunedÝ. Uno sguardo dal… 2 eksemplarer
The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man 2 eksemplarer
The crucible: Play and study notes 2 eksemplarer
All My Sons, Vienna's English Theatre 2 eksemplarer
By Arthur Miller Las Brujas De Salem, El Crisol / The Salem Witches,The Crucible (Spanish Edition) (Tra) [Paperback] (1653) 1 eksemplar
The Misfits 1 eksemplar
Rare Arthur Miller DEATH OF A SALESMAN First UK Edition signed 1st Edition -Cresset Press (1949) 1 eksemplar
Dramak 1 eksemplar
The Crucible - Spoken Arts 1 eksemplar
Death Of A Salesman - Act 1 & 2 1 eksemplar
Situation Normal 1 eksemplar
Five Plays by Arthur Miller 1 eksemplar
Collected plays of Arthur Miller 1 eksemplar
Dramen. Hexenjagd - Der Tod ded Handlungdreisenden - Blick von der Brücke - Erinnerung an zwei Montage 1 eksemplar
TDR #177 1 eksemplar
The Death of a Salesman 1 eksemplar
Todos eran mis hijos ; Después de la caída 1 eksemplar
Arthur Miller's Lecture at Columbia (11/17/1997) 1 eksemplar
Miller Arthur 1 eksemplar
SCRIPT: The Crucible 1 eksemplar
The Crucible - Hexenjagd von Arthur Miller: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und… (2013) 1 eksemplar
Miller Plays 1: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View from the Bridge (World… (2009) 1 eksemplar
Arthur Miller's Collected Plays - The Franklin Library - Allan Mardon Illustrations (1981) 1 eksemplar
Penguin Plays, The Crucible 1 eksemplar
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 902 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Bidragyder — 107 eksemplarer
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 73 eksemplarer
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 59 eksemplarer
Three Plays About Business in America: The Adding Machine, Beggar on Horseback, All My Sons (1964) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 4 — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
All My Sons [1987 TV movie] — Original play — 2 eksemplarer
After the Fall [1974 TV movie] — Original play — 1 eksemplar
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Miller, Arthur Asher
- Fødselsdato
- 1915-10-17
- Dødsdag
- 2005-02-10
- Begravelsessted
- Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Connecticut, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Michigan (BA | English | 1938)
- Erhverv
- playwright
novelist
essayist
autobiographer
short-story writer - Relationer
- Monroe, Marilyn (spouse|divorced)
Morath, Inge (spouse)
Miller, Rebecca (daughter) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2001)
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (1998)
Jerusalem Prize (2003)
National Medal of Arts (1993)
Kennedy Center Honors (1984)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias ( [2002]) (vis alle 8)
Jefferson Lecture (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1958)
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