A searing exposure of war profiteering, All My Sons was Miller's first Broadway success in 1947. This definitive critical edition of the play features a comprehensive commentary together with notes and questions prepared by one of the leading international Miller experts in consultation with the author's estate.
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the most important playwright of the twentieth century whose oeuvre includes novels, screenplays, essays and an autobiography. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Toby Zinman is Professor of English, University of the Arts, Philadelphia USA, and a theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Variety.
'The uniform structure and consistent approach eveident in these
[first] four volumes make them readable and accessible to students
and scholars alike and guarantee that these editions will certainly
persist as invaluable tools for those who both enjoy Miller as a
dramatist and study him as a significant social and American
spokesperson.'
*The Arthur Miller Journal, fall 2010*
Arthur Miller's first successful play is a devastating indictment
of the post-war American dream.
*Neil Norman, Daily Express, 28.5.10*
Miller's theme of man's responsibility towards his fellow men feels
genuinely noble rather than merely didactic. It is also urgently
topical.
*Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 28.5.10*
All My Sons, according to David Mamet, is not only Arthur Miller's
greatest play but also one of the ten best American plays of the
20Th century.
*Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 29.5.10*
This saturated realism may seem to be the default mode for All My
Sons, which had its origins in a real-life incident. Still, there's
another strand to the play: a visionary, apocalypric element...
*Susannah Clapp, Observer, 30.5.10*
Miler ultimately puts us all on trial. This is a production of rare
power and intensity...
*Tim Walker, Sunday Telegraph, 30.5.10*
Arthur Miller's first major stage success set a template for his
searing dessections of the American Dream.
*Sibhan Murphy, Metro (London), 1.6.10*
Arthur Miller's 1947 play is an extraordinary construction, rising
inexorably to peak of guilt revelation even as it descends into the
dephts of a man's and a nation's psyche.
*Nina Caplan, Time Out London, 3.6.10*
A preventable tragedy is at the nub of Arthur Miller's 1947 play
All My Sonsl It was red-hot with resonance then and, some six
decades on, with accusations flying above substandard or inadequate
equipment provided for Armed Forces in Afghanistan, it is even more
combustible now.
*Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday, 6.6.10*
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