Collected Plays: With An Introduction
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Few voices in American theatre have cut as deeply into the nation's conscience as Arthur Miller's, and Collected Plays gathers his most formidable dramatic works into a single, essential volume. This landmark 1958 Cresset Press edition presents Miller's canonical plays — including the searing domestic tragedy Death of a Salesman, the Puritan-era allegory The Crucible, the family drama All My Sons, and the introspective A Memory of Two Mondays and A View from the Bridge — alongside a substantial introduction written by Miller himself, offering a rare and illuminating window into his own creative philosophy. The collection stands as a definitive portrait of mid-twentieth-century American drama, chronicling the moral fractures of a society caught between ambition and self-deception, conformity and conscience. Miller's prose is taut and unsparing, his characters perpetually wrestling with guilt, responsibility, and the corrosive weight of the American Dream. The author's own introduction elevates this volume beyond a mere anthology, transforming it into an intellectual manifesto on the purpose and power of theatre — leaving the reader to question whether the stage Miller built decades ago still holds its mirror up to the world today.
Author: Arthur Miller
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Cresset Press
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Few voices in American theatre have cut as deeply into the nation's conscience as Arthur Miller's, and Collected Plays gathers his most formidable dramatic works into a single, essential volume. This landmark 1958 Cresset Press edition presents Miller's canonical plays — including the searing domestic tragedy Death of a Salesman, the Puritan-era allegory The Crucible, the family drama All My Sons, and the introspective A Memory of Two Mondays and A View from the Bridge — alongside a substantial introduction written by Miller himself, offering a rare and illuminating window into his own creative philosophy. The collection stands as a definitive portrait of mid-twentieth-century American drama, chronicling the moral fractures of a society caught between ambition and self-deception, conformity and conscience. Miller's prose is taut and unsparing, his characters perpetually wrestling with guilt, responsibility, and the corrosive weight of the American Dream. The author's own introduction elevates this volume beyond a mere anthology, transforming it into an intellectual manifesto on the purpose and power of theatre — leaving the reader to question whether the stage Miller built decades ago still holds its mirror up to the world today.