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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar
Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between
fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois
and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes
an introduction by Arthur Miller. 'I have always depended on the
kindness of strangers' Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is
adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her
sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her
delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude,
brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent
collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to
crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of
happiness. Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama,
recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of
the most influential plays of the twentieth century. Tennessee
Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his
father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis
some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to
settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression
and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe
company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings
writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play
Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955.
Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass
Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961),
and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named
Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in
Penguin Modern Classics. 'Lyrical and poetic and human and
heartbreaking and memorable and funny' Francis Ford Coppola,
director of The Godfather 'One of the greatest American plays'
Observer
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The Crucible (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Soyica Diggs Colbert; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the
dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?
I have given you my soul; leave me my name! In a small tight-knit
community, gossip and rumour spread like wildfire, inflaming
personal grievances until no-one is safe from accusation and
vengeance. The Crucible is Arthur Miller's classic dramatisation of
the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of
Salem in 1692. Seen as a chilling parallel to the McCarthyism and
repressive culture of fear that gripped America in the 1950s, the
play's timeless relevance and appeal remains as strong as when the
play opened on Broadway in 1953. This new edition includes an
introduction by Soyica Diggs Colbert, that explores the play's
production history as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic
debates that surround it; a must-have resource for any student
exploring The Crucible.
'It is Mr. Miller's notion, potentially a great one, that the
Baums' story can help tell the story of America itself during that
traumatic era.' NEW YORK TIMES When the stock market crashes, the
once-financially comfortable Baum family lose everything and are
forced to leave their lofty home in Manhattan to live with
relatives in Brooklyn: how can their pride, purpose and artistic
endeavours survive such a sudden and shocking reversal of fortune?
A sweeping, hard-hitting look at the Great Depression of the 1930s,
The American Clock is a vaudevillian celebration of American
resilience and optimism in the face of national crisis, and was
performed on Broadway in 1980. This Methuen Drama Student Edition
is edited by Jane K. Dominik, with commentary and notes that
explore the play's production history (including excerpts from
interviews with designers of the 1980 Broadway production) as well
as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.
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Broken Glass (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Ambika Singh, Nupur Tandon
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"It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as
strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken
Glass." - The New York Times When Sylvia Gellburg, a young Jewish
woman living in Brooklyn, becomes partially paralyzed from the
waist down, her husband Phillip is shocked: what could've caused
this sudden condition? The answer is Kristallnacht, the horrific,
anti-Semitic event occurring halfway around the world. As the
Gellburgs reckon with this pogrom and with the breakdown of their
own marriage, a terrifying thought emerges: will the Jewish people
ever be able to avoid persecution? Broken Glass is one of Miller's
most moving and personal works, touching on themes of Jewish
identity and anti-Semitism, winning him the Olivier Award for Best
New Play in 1994. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by
Ambika Singh, and Nupur Tandon, with commentary and notes that
explore the play's production history (including excerpts from an
interview with director David Thacker,) as well as the dramatic,
thematic and academic debates that surround it.
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A View from the Bridge (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Julie Vatain-Corfdir; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
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The law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to
happen. When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in
this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it
now. Let her go. And bless her. Set among Italian-Americans on the
Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge is the story of
longshoreman Eddie Carbone. When his wife's cousins arrive as
illegal immigrants from Italy, he is honoured to take them into his
house. But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them,
Eddie grows increasingly suspicious, eventually precipitating his
violation of the moral and cultural codes of his community and
leading to the play's tragic finale. With its examination of the
themes of sexuality, responsibility, betrayal and vengeance, A View
from the Bridge is Miller at his best and a modern classic. This
new edition includes an introduction by Julie Vatain-Corfdir that
explores the play's production history as well as the dramatic,
thematic, and academic debates that surround it; a must-have
resource for any student exploring A View from the Bridge.
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All My Sons (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Claire Gleitman
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'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller
has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs
naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMES
Three years on from the disappearance of his son, successful
businessman Joe Keller has made a comfortable life for his family
in America's Midwest: despite being accused of supplying defective
aircraft equipment in World War 2, he is altogether happy. But,
when a shadowy figure from Joe's past returns, his hidden truths
are revealed, and the price of the American Dream is laid bare.
Miller's first successful play on Broadway, All My Sons launched
his career and established him as one of America's greatest
dramatists, also winning him the 1946 Tony Award for Best Author.
An incisive indictment of greed, capitalism and self-interest, All
My Sons is remembered as one of the playwright's greatest works.
This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Clare Gleitman,
with commentary and notes that explore the play's production
history (including excerpts from an interview with director Jeremy
Herrin) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that
surround it.
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Death of a Salesman (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Claire Conceison; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I
want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and
yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly
celebrated as one of the most famous dramatisations of the failure
of the American Dream, the play's moral and political purpose is
perfectly counterbalanced by a powerful and moving human drama of a
man trying to make his way in the world and of the human flaws that
lead to the shattering of his family and of their figurehead. Death
of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and considered one of
the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and
drama that is studied and performed around the world. This new
edition includes an introduction by Claire Conceison that explores
the play's production history as well as the dramatic, thematic,
and academic debates that surround it; a must-have resource for any
student exploring Death of a Salesman.
The final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by
Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as "the
greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard).
Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002
and 2004), it offers the first ever publication of Miller's final
play, Finishing the Picture. Inspired by his experience during the
filming of The Misfits with his then wife Marilyn Monroe, the play
was completed and produced at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, just
months before the playwright's death in February 2005. Broken Glass
(1994) is set in Brooklyn in 1938 and intertwines a woman's
obsession with the news from Germany that government thugs are
smashing Jewish stores, with her strange relationship with her
husband. "It balances private lives with public morality. . . it is
also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and
passion." (Daily Telegraph). Mr Peters' Connections (1998) is an
unforgettable journey through one man's mind at a time of suspended
consciousness, where the living and dead intermingle in his memory.
Resurrection Blues (2002) is Miller's astonishing black comedy set
in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics
and the predatory nature of a media saturated culture. The volume
also features a chronology of the writer's work and an introduction
by Enoch Brater, professor of English Literature at the University
of Michigan.
A stage adaptation of the drama "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik
Ibsen in which a Norwegian doctor is shunned by the townspeople
after he discovers their famous spring water is really poisoned.
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After the Fall (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Ramon Espejo Romero
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'Much like Mr. Miller, Quentin is a witness to alarming public and
personal catastrophes: the stock market crash, the Holocaust, the
McCarthy witchhunts and the self-destruction of a show business
idol to whom he is married.' NEW YORK TIMES Haunted by past
romantic failures, Quentin, a New York City Jewish intellectual,
retreats into his mind as he debates marrying for a third time: as
he revisits past loves and losses, his mind and memory fragments
under philosophical questions; are our failures really just our
own? Or is possible to hide away from the mistakes of the past? One
of Miller's most personal plays, After the Fall takes place almost
entirely inside the mind of the play's protagonist, who is often
read as a stand-in for the playwright himself. Touching on themes
of the Holocaust, McCarthyism and inherited sin, the play is one of
the most discussed within Miller's canon. This Methuen Drama
Student Edition is edited by Ramon Espejo-Romero, with commentary
and notes that explore the play's production history (including
excerpts from an interview with Michael Blakemore, former Associate
Director of the Royal National Theatre,) as well as the dramatic,
thematic and academic debates that surround it.
'Mr. Miller knows his audience... he is letting us know, the devil
will have his due.' NEW YORK TIMES When insurance agent Lyman Felt
is hospitalised following a near-fatal car crash, both of his wives
show up at his bedside and his duplicitous bigamy is revealed. As
his shocked spouses - the prim Theo and the assertive Leah - reel
from this revelation and their husband's hypocrisy, an outrageous
question is presented: is marriage actually easier this way?
Touching on themes of betrayal, crisis and reconciliation, The Ride
Down Mt. Morgan is one of Miller's more controversial works, and
was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1991. This
Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Thiago Russo, with
commentary and notes that explore the play's production history
(including excerpts from an interview with director David
Esbjornson) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates
that surround it.
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The Price (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Yuko Kurahashi
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"The Price is one of the most engrossing and entertaining plays
that Miller has ever written." - The New Uork Times When patriarch
of the Franz family dies, his two sons return home to dispose of
the furniture crammed in his attic: one is a successful surgeon,
the other gave up everything to support their father following the
Great Depression. As the pair sort through these abandoned
belongings, frustrations, secrets and surprise guests are
uncovered. With its touching and farcical presentation of American
life beyond the Vietnam War and Great Depression, The Price is
widely recognised as one of Miller's major works, earning him a
Tony Award nomination in 1968. This Methuen Drama Student Edition
is edited by Yuko Kurahashi, with commentary and notes that explore
the play's production history (including excerpts from interviews
with the director and designers of the 2017 Arena Stage production)
as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that
surround it.
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All My Sons (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
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In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial
to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn
down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's
past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the
court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine
heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one
pilots out of the sky ...
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A View from the Bridge (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Arthur Miller; Preface by Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece
of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit
Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a
longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of
decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his
wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from
Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them,
it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too
strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something
bigger, deeper is wrong - and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't
face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole
family. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by
the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
"The greatest American dramatist of our age." (Evening Standard) In
this collected works, five of Arthur Miller's most-produced and
popular plays are brought together in a new edition, alongside an
exclusive introduction by Ivo van Hove, the celebrated contemporary
director of Miller's works. All five plays were written by Miller
within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit,
All My Sons, in 1947 which led Brooks Atkinson of the New York
Times to state that 'theatre has acquired a genuine new talent.'
This was followed in 1949 by his exploration of the American Dream
in Death of a Salesman, which went on to win the Tony Award for
Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Crucible followed
in 1953, produced during the McCarthy era and becoming a parable of
the witch-hunting practices of a government determined to root-out
Communists. A View from the Bridge, originally performed in 1955,
concerns the lives of longshoremen in the Brooklyn waterfront and
has remained one of Miller's most produced plays. Originally
presented as a one-act companion piece to A Memory of Two Mondays,
both plays explore the dreams and working lives of ordinary
Americans in the early decades of the 20th century. Freshly edited
and featuring a bold new design, this updated edition of Arthur
Miller Plays 1 is a must-have for theatre fans and students alike.
"Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel
for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what
they do. This is more than a writer's craft, it is a psychological
and moral openness to humanity, an act not of imitating, but of
sharing". Sunday Times This fourth anthology features Arthur
Miller's two early plays, The Golden Years, a historical tragedy
about Montezuma's destruction at the hands of Cortez, and The Man
Who Had All the Luck, a fable about human freedom and individual
responsibility, are brought together in this volume. It also
features two of his contemporary shorter plays, I Can't Remember
Anything and Clara, first presented on a double bill as Danger!
Memory. The latter focus on the importance and dangers of
remembering the past, while the early plays, written at the time of
the Second World War, mark the emergence of a drama in which public
issues are rooted in private anxieties and chart the beginning of
Miller's career that was one of the most distinguished in dramatic
history. First produced in 1944 and revived in London in 2008, The
Man Who Had All the Luck is a mesmerising drama in which the
author's brilliance and characteristic qualities are already
evident: The fourth volume of Miller's plays has been reissued with
a new cover and features an introduction by the author and a
chronology of his work.
"The greatest American dramatist of our age" Evening Standard This
fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the
early nineties: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), which
the Guardian called "a fine and moving play . . . Like all Miller's
best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by
connecting personal desperation to insane American values"; and The
Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), which explores themes of bigamy and
betrayal, described as "searching, scorching, harsh but
compassionate" (Sunday Times). Also contained in the volume is
Almost Everybody Wins, the original version of the screenplay
Arthur Miller wrote for Karel Reisz's film, "Everybody Wins".
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.
A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.
'A gentle, lyrical, Chekhovian evocation of the past, with that
special unpretentious charm that special works sometimes have.' NEW
YORK TIMES At an auto-parts warehouse in Brooklyn, life seems
frozen in time: as workers of every age commute in, nothing ever
seems to change. Newcomer Bert, only 18 years old, hopes to escape
this world, earnestly saving his wages for college... but can such
a dream survive his workplace's haze of hopelessness, despondency
and alcoholism? A vivid rendering of life under the Great
Depression, A Memory of Two Mondays perfectly captures the
anxieties and concerns of the 1930s, autobiographically reflecting
Miller's own experience as an 18-year-old in this period. This
Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Stephen Marino, with
commentary and notes that explore the play's production history
(including excerpts from an interview with director Rob Roznowski)
as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that
surround it.
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The Last Yankee (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Ciaran Leinster
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'When the play focuses on the self-entrapment of the characters,
Mr. Miller can be tender as well as trenchant' NEW YORK TIMES Two
strangers meet in a New England psychiatric clinic, each visiting
their admitted, depressed wife: one is a humble carpenter with
seven children, the other a successful businessman in a childless
marriage; both have been forgotten by the promise of the American
Dream. Described by Miller as 'a comedy about a tragedy', this
one-act play highlights the devastating consequences for those who
fail to achieve the purported riches of the American Dream; a
reality many face. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by
Ciaran Leinster, with commentary and notes that explore the play's
production history (including excerpts from an interview with
director David Thacker) as well as the dramatic, thematic and
academic debates that surround it.
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