The Creation of the World and Other Business

The Creation of the World and Other Business

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1101991984

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A master dramatist’s humorous retelling of the biblical creation story as a parable for our time Breathing new life into timeless biblical tales, Arthur Miller charmingly reimagines the Book of Genesis from the temptation of Adam and Eve to the fraternal tragedy of Cain and Abel. In the beginning, God, generally satisfied with his creation, is nonetheless perplexed by Adam and Eve—why won’t they multiply? It takes wily Lucifer to interest them in anything more than playing handball in the Garden of Eden, but their new knowledge comes at a price. The first family is exiled from paradise—just as Lucifer is banned from heaven—and a fallen, morally ambiguous state becomes the destiny of humankind. Though The Creation of the World and Other Business was Arthur Miller’s first Broadway comedy, it is full of the searching insight and sparkling dialogue that distinguish his best dramas.


Critical Companion to Arthur Miller

Critical Companion to Arthur Miller

Author: Susan C. W. Abbotson

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1438108389

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Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.


Understanding Arthur Miller

Understanding Arthur Miller

Author: Alice Griffin

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781570031014

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A comprehensive reader's companion to the works of one of America's greatest playwrights.


The Real Arthur Miller

The Real Arthur Miller

Author: Andrew Norman

Publisher: White Owl

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1399040774

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During his lifetime, US playwright Arthur Miller was affronted in numerous ways by what he experienced, either personally, or vicariously through the experiences of others. For example: By the way his immigrant family had come to financial grief in the Great Depression (1929 to the late 1930s), through no fault of their own. By the anti-Semitism that existed in the USA and elsewhere in the 1930s, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust in which so many people of his own ethnic group, the Jews, together with millions of other innocents, perished. By the way he and others, including many connected with the arts, were persecuted for alleged communist sympathies in the McCarthy ‘witch-hunts’ of the late 1940s and 1950s in the USA. By the way that atheism, to which he himself subscribed, was considered to be subversive and unpatriotic. By the way that the ‘American Dream’ was generally portrayed as something to which everybody could aspire: and yet, by embracing the concept of the American Dream, most people were generally setting themselves up to fail. Despite his disillusionment with life, Miller strove to illuminate a path to a better way and in doing so, offered hope to the inhabitants of the flawed and troubled world in which he found himself, not just in the USA but also elsewhere.


Playing God

Playing God

Author: Henry Bial

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-08-20

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0472052926

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A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar


The Collected Works of Harold Clurman

The Collected Works of Harold Clurman

Author: Harold Clurman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-02

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13: 9781557832641

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(Applause Books). For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine , and more. The Collected Works of Harold Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the most significant events in American theatre as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. This chronological epic offers the most comprehensive view of American theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic. 1102 pages, hardcover.


Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors

Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors

Author: Michael Schulman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1980-07-31

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0140481532

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This collection of contemporary scenes provides the student actor, as well as professional and untrained performers, with material from some of the best plays ever written. Each selection contains critical information on characters, setting, and background to give a clear sense of what the play is about. Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors accommodates a wide variety of acting styles, from naturalistic to poetic to highly stylized, spanning a range of ages and a variety of locales, and incorporating excerpts of various lengths. Includes scenes from plays by · Woody Allen · Maxwell Anderson · Jean Anouilh · Simon Gray · John Guare · Lillian Hellman · Albert Innaurato · David Mamet · Mark Medoff · Arthur Miller · Miguel Pinero · David Rabe · Sam Shepard · Tennessee Williams · And many more!


On Directing

On Directing

Author: Harold Clurman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-04-03

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0684826224

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Originally published: New York: Collier Books, 1972.


Remembering Arthur Miller

Remembering Arthur Miller

Author: Christopher Bigsby

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1408150166

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Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers', an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the twentieth century. Published as a celebration and commemoration of his life, Part I of Remembering Arthur Miller is a collection of over seventy specially commissioned pieces from writers, actors, directors and friends, providing personal, critical and professional commentary on the man who gave the theatre such timeless classics as All my Sons, A View from the Bridge, The Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible. Contributors read like a Who's Who of theatre, film and literature: Edward Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Richard Eyre, Joseph Fiennes, Nadine Gordimer, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Mitchell, Harold Pinter, Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Stoppard, to name but a few. Part II, 'Arthur Miller Remembers', is an in-depth and wide-ranging interview conducted with Miller in 1995. Bigsby's expertise and Miller's candour produce a wonderfully insightful commentary and analysis both of Miller's life and the life of twentieth century America. It covers Miller's upbringing in Harlem, the Depression, marriage to Marilyn Monroe, post-war America, being sentenced to prison by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956, and his presidency of the writer's organisation, PEN International. The discourse also provides a commentary on and analysis of his many plays andMiller's reflections on the Amercian theatre.