Methuen Drama A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death Of A Salesman, The Crucible, A View From The Bridge, Broken Glass

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Miller's artistry. A chronology of Miller's life and work helps to situate his oeuvre in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of his writing, its recurrent themes and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: the contextthemescharactersstructure and languagethe play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations)questions for studynotes on words and phrases in the text The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Miller's greatest plays. About the Author Alan Ackerman is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he also holds a joint-appointment in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. His books include Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (2011), Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar (2011), and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (1999). He is the editor of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011). Since 2005, he has served as Editor of the journal Modern Drama.