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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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'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*