(H/B) THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER

Παρουσίαση

This volume brings together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time: Arthur Miller.
Arranged chronologically, these writings take the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history: the Nazi war crimes trials, Vietnam, Watergate, the Balkan conflict and even President Clinton's infamous liaison with Monica Lewinsky. From his personal experience, Miller writes passionate discourses on censorship and the death penalty, and Swiftian satire on the McCarthy witch-hunts; records his meeting with Nelson Mandela; and assesses the lasting impact of the Depression on an American generation.
The essays are also a remarkable record of Miller's views on theatre, including discourses on the origins of modern drama, the nature of tragedy, what makes plays endure, and theatre in Russia and the US. They give eloquent expression to his belief in 'the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone'.
This collection features selected essays from three earlier publications: Echoes Down the Corridor, The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller and The Crucible in History. The volume is edited and features a new introduction by Matthew Roudane, Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University. (From the publisher)

'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)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Matthew Roudane
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
On Adaptations
Introduction to "A View from the Bridge" (Two-act Version)
-Essays: 1962-1970
The Bored and the Violent
The Nazi Trials and the German Heart
Foreword to "After the Fall"
Guilt and "Incident at Vichy"
What Makes Plays Endure?
It Could Happen Here-And Did
The Battle of Chicago: From the Delegates' Side
On the Theater in Russia
Broadway, From O'Neill to Now
Kidnapped?
-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 Roudane
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
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
Let's Privatize Congress
On Mark Twain's "Chapters from My Autobiography"
Clinton in Salem
"Salesman" at Fifty
"The Crucible" in History
"The Price"-The Power of the Past
Subsidized Theater