Arthur Miller (1) (1915–2005)
Auteur de The crucible: A play in four acts
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Arthur Miller, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
The son of a well-to-do New York Jewish family, Miller graduated from high school and then went to work in a warehouse. He was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City. His plays have been called "political," but he considers the areas of literature and politics to be quite separate and afficher plus has said, "The only sure and valid aim---speaking of art as a weapon---is the humanizing of man." The recurring theme of all his plays is the relationship between a man's identity and the image that society demands of him. After two years, he entered the University of Michigan, where he soon started writing plays. All My Sons (1947), a Broadway success that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947, tells the story of a son, home from the war, who learns that his brother's death was due to defective airplane parts turned out by their profiteering father. Death of a Salesman (1949), Miller's experimental yet classical American tragedy, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1949. It is a poignant statement of a man facing himself and his failure. In The Crucible (1953), a play about bigotry in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, Miller brings into focus the social tragedy of a society gone mad, as well as the agony of a heroic individual. The play was generally considered to be a comment on the McCarthyism of its time. Miller himself appeared before the Congressional Un-American Activities Committee and steadfastly refused to involve his friends and associates when questioned about them. His screenplay for The Misfits (1961), from his short story, was written for his second wife, actress Marilyn Monroe (see Vol. 3); After the Fall (1964) has clear autobiographical overtones and involves the story of this ill-fated marriage as well as further dealing with Miller's experiences with McCarthyism. In the one-act Incident at Vichy (1964), a group of men are picked off the streets one morning during the Nazi occupation of France. The Price (1968) is a psychological drama concerning two brothers, one a police officer, one a wealthy surgeon, whose long-standing conflict is explored over the disposal of their father's furniture. The Creation of the World and Other Business (1973) is a retelling of the story of Genesis, attempted as a comedy. The American Clock (1980) explores the impact of the Depression on the nation and its individual citizens. Among Miller's most recent works is Danger: Memory! (1987), a study of two elderly friends. During the 1980s, almost all of Miller's plays were given major British revivals, and the playwright's work has been more popular in Britain than in the United States of late. Miller died of heart failure after a battle against cancer, pneumonia and congestive heart disease at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 89 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) Arthur Miller, American playwright, was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. He earned an AB from the University of Michigan and began to write plays while still a student. He won the first of his many awards, the Avery Hopwood Prize of the University of Michigan, for his first play, Honors at Dawn. This was followed by many other award-winning plays. One of the best-known of these, Death of a Salesman, won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1949 as well as a Drama Critics Circle Award; it continues to be one of the most frequently performed and adapted plays of this century. Some of his other titles include The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, The Misfits, After the Fall, and Vichy. Miller also wrote several travel pieces, including In Russia and Chinese Encounters (both in collaboration with his third wife, Ingeborg Morath); a novel, Focus; and the autobiography, Timebends: A Life. Arthur Miller was married to Mary Grace Slattery in 1940. They had two children and were divorced in 1952. In 1956, he married actress Marilyn Monroe and they divorced in 1961. He married Morath in 1962 and they have two children together. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Arthur Miller
Miller Plays 1: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible / A Memory of Two Mondays / A View from the Bridge (1988) 111 exemplaires
Eight Plays: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge / After… (1981) 46 exemplaires
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall (1995) 25 exemplaires
Miller Plays 2: The Misfits / After the Fall / Incident at Vichy / The Price / The Creation of the World and Other… (1988) 20 exemplaires
Teatro 12 exemplaires
Two-way Mirror: "Elegy for a Lady" and "Some Kind of Love Story" (Modern Plays) (1982) 9 exemplaires
The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller. Vol. 2 8 exemplaires
Miller Plays 4: Golden Years / The Man Who Had All the Luck / I Can't Remember Anything / Clara (1994) 8 exemplaires
Miller Plays 6: Broken Glass; Mr Peter's Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture (World Classics):… (2009) 7 exemplaires
Todos Eran Mis Hijos & Despues De La Caida / All My Sons & After the Fall (Gran Teatro) (Spanish Edition) (1995) 6 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Crucible = (Die Hexenjagd): An Opera in 4 Acts [vocal score] (1963) — Playwright — 6 exemplaires
Na de zondeval ; Incident in Vichy 4 exemplaires
Miller Plays 5: Last Yankee / The Ride Down Mount Morgan / Almost Everybody Wins (1995) 4 exemplaires
A view from the bridge : an opera in two acts ; libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller (2002) 3 exemplaires
Death of a Salesman, etc 3 exemplaires
The crucible: Play and study notes 2 exemplaires
The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man 2 exemplaires
Teatro. Erano tutti miei figli. Morte di un commesso viaggiatore. Il crogiuolo. Ricordo di due lunedÝ. Uno sguardo dal… 2 exemplaires
All My Sons, Vienna's English Theatre 2 exemplaires
The Misfits 1 exemplaire
Rare Arthur Miller DEATH OF A SALESMAN First UK Edition signed 1st Edition -Cresset Press (1949) 1 exemplaire
Death Of A Salesman - Act 1 & 2 1 exemplaire
The Crucible - Spoken Arts 1 exemplaire
Dramak 1 exemplaire
By Arthur Miller Las Brujas De Salem, El Crisol / The Salem Witches,The Crucible (Spanish Edition) (Tra) [Paperback] (1653) 1 exemplaire
Situation Normal 1 exemplaire
Five Plays by Arthur Miller 1 exemplaire
Dramen. Hexenjagd - Der Tod ded Handlungdreisenden - Blick von der Brücke - Erinnerung an zwei Montage 1 exemplaire
TDR #177 1 exemplaire
Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien, Bd.142, Tod eines Handlungsreisenden: Death of a Salesman (2001) 1 exemplaire
Arthur Miller's Lecture at Columbia (11/17/1997) 1 exemplaire
Arthur Miller Reading from Mr. Peters' Connections and Columbia University (11/17/1997) 1 exemplaire
Miller Arthur 1 exemplaire
SCRIPT: The Crucible 1 exemplaire
The Crucible - Hexenjagd von Arthur Miller: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und… (2013) 1 exemplaire
Miller Plays 1: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View from the Bridge (World… (2009) 1 exemplaire
Arthur Miller's Collected Plays - The Franklin Library - Allan Mardon Illustrations (1981) 1 exemplaire
The Crucible 🎭 ❤ ✓ (Live Theatre-Imperial Theatre) 1 exemplaire
Penguin Plays, The Crucible 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 938 exemplaires, 7 critiques
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (1980) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 477 exemplaires, 7 critiques
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 457 exemplaires, 3 critiques
The Best American Essays 1999 (The Best American Essays) (1999) — Contributeur — 187 exemplaires, 1 critique
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributeur — 187 exemplaires, 3 critiques
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contributeur — 163 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contributeur — 111 exemplaires, 2 critiques
One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theater (1961) — Contributeur — 105 exemplaires, 1 critique
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires, 1 critique
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
Three Plays About Business in America: The Adding Machine, Beggar on Horseback, All My Sons (1976) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires, 1 critique
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1963) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 4 — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
All My Sons [1987 TV movie] — Original play — 2 exemplaires
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
After the Fall [1974 TV movie] — Original play — 1 exemplaire
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Miller, Arthur Asher
- Date de naissance
- 1915-10-17
- Date de décès
- 2005-02-10
- Lieu de sépulture
- Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Connecticut, USA - Études
- University of Michigan (BA | English | 1938)
- Professions
- playwright
novelist
essayist
autobiographer
short-story writer - Relations
- Monroe, Marilyn (spouse|divorced)
Morath, Inge (spouse)
Miller, Rebecca (daughter) - Prix et distinctions
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2001)
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (1998)
Jerusalem Prize (2003)
National Medal of Arts (1993)
Kennedy Center Honors (1984)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias ( [2002]) (tout afficher 8)
Jefferson Lecture (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1958)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 154
- Aussi par
- 54
- Membres
- 38,433
- Popularité
- #469
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 402
- ISBN
- 812
- Langues
- 23
- Favoris
- 46
L'histoire est celle d'un commis voyageur (interprété par Dustin Hoffman) qui vient de se faire virer de la société pour laquelle il travaillait depuis des décennies. Prématurément vieilli au début de la soixantaine, il vit dans ses souvenirs et tient un long monologue qui ne fait qu'osciller entre satisfaction et colère, dans lequel il tâche d'édulcorer une vie ratée. Son épouse lui voue une admiration sans bornes, au détriment de leurs deux fils, et notamment du plus jeune (brillamment interprété par John Malkovich) qui doit prendre la décision de rompre les amarres avec une famille qui ne vit que de ses mensonges et de ses illusions.
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