The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781472591739
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472591753
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections

This comprehensive volume brings together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time: Arthur Miller.

Arranged chronologically from 1944 to 2000, these writings take the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history alongside offering a remarkable record of Miller's views on theater. They give eloquent expression to his belief in 'the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone'. Published with the essays are articles that Miller had written and in-depth interviews he has given.

This collection features material from two earlier publications: Echoes Down the Corridor and The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller. It is edited and features a new introduction by Matthew Roudané, Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University.

'Arthur Miller understands that serious writing is a social act as well as an aesthetic one, that political involvement comes with the territory. A writer's work and his actions should be of the same cloth, after all. His plays and his conscience are a cold burning force.' Edward Albee

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• By the same author
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Matthew Roudané
• Author’s Foreword to the First Edition of The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller: Sorting Things Out
• Author’s Foreword to the Second Edition of The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller
• Author’s Preface to Echoes Down The Corridor
• Essays: 1944–1950
• Belief in America (from Situation Normal)
• Tragedy and the Common Man
• The Nature of Tragedy
• The Salesman Has a Birthday
• Essays: 1951–1960
• Preface to an Adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People
• Many Writers: Few Plays
• University of Michigan
• Journey to The Crucible
• A Modest Proposal for the Pacification of the Public Temper
• The American Theater
• A Boy Grew in Brooklyn
• On Social Plays
• 1956 and All This
• The Family in Modern Drama
• Concerning the Boom
• Introduction to the Collected Plays
• Brewed in The Crucible
• The Shadows of the Gods
• Morality and Modern Drama: Interview by Philip Gelb
• On Adaptations
• Introduction to A View from the Bridge (Two-act Version)
• The State of the Theater: Interview by Henry Brandon
• Essays: 1962–1970
• The Bored and the Violent
• On Recognition
• The Nazi Trials and the German Heart
• Foreword to After the Fall
• Guilt and Incident at Vichy
• What Makes Plays Endure?
• Arthur Miller: Interview by Olga Carlisle and Rose Styron
• It Could Happen Here—And Did
• The Contemporary Theater
• The Battle of Chicago: From the Delegates’ Side
• On the Theater in Russia
• Broadway, From O’Neill to Now
• Kidnapped?
• The Opera House in Tashkent (from In Russia)
• Essays: 1972–1980
• Making Crowds
• Arthur Miller vs. Lincoln Center
• Arthur Miller on The Crucible
• Miracles
• What’s Wrong With This Picture? Speculations On A Homemade Greeting Card
• The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero
• Rain in a Strange City
• On True Identity
• A Genuine Countryman (from In the Country)
• The Sin of Power
• The Pure in Heart Need No Lawyers (from Chinese Encounters)
• Essays: 1982–1990
• The American Writer: The American Theater
• After the Spring
• Suspended in Time
• The Night Ed Murrow Struck Back
• Excerpts from ‘Salesman’ in Beijing
• The Will to Live: Interview by Steven R. Centola
• Tennessee Williams’s Legacy: An Eloquence and Amplitude of Feeling
• The Face in the Mirror: Anti-Semitism Then and Now
• Thoughts on a Burned House
• Dinner with the Ambassador
• The Mad Inventor of Modern Drama
• An Interview With Arthur Miller: Interview by Matthew Roudané
• Excerpt from Timebends: A Life
• Fabulous Appetite for Greatness
• Ibsen’s Warning
• Again They Drink from the Cup of Suspicion
• Introduction to The Golden Years and The Man Who Had All the Luck
• Conditions of Freedom: Two Plays of the Seventies – The Archbishop’s Ceiling and The American Clock
• Uneasy About the Germans: After the Wall
• A Conversation with Arthur Miller: Interview by Janet Balakian
• Arthur Miller—An Interview: Interview by Christopher Bigsby
• On Screenwriting and Language: Introduction to Everybody Wins
• Introduction to Plays: Three
• Essays: 1991–2000
• The Measure of the Man
• Get It Right: Privatize Executions
• Lost Horizon
• The Good Old American Apple Pie
• We’re Probably in an Art That Is—Not Dying
• The Parable of the Stripper
• About Theater Language: Afterword to The Last Yankee
• Ibsen and the Drama of Today
• Let’s Privatize Congress
• On Mark Twain’s Chapters from My Autobiography
• Clinton in Salem
• Notes on Realism
• Salesman at Fifty
• The Crucible in History
• The Price—The Power of the Past
• Subsidized Theater
• Index
• Copyright