Collected plays

Author(s)

• Miller, Arthur
• Kushner, Tony

Bibliographic Information

Collected plays

Arthur Miller

（The library of America, 163, 223, 261）

Library of America, c2006-

• 1944-1961
• 1964-1982
• 1987-2004

Other Title

Collected plays 1987-2004 : with stage and radio plays of the 1930s & 40s

Note

"Chronology": 1944-1961, p. 753-768; 1964-1982, p. 787-801; 1987-2004, p. 873-887

Includes bibliographical references

Other title from 1987-2004

Editor of 1987-2004: Tony Kushner

Contents of Works

• 1944-1961. The man who had all the luck : a fable (1944)
• All my sons (1947)
• Death of a salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem (1949)
• An enemy of the people / by Henrik Ibsen (adaptation, 1950)
• The crucible : a play in four acts (1953)
• A memory of two Mondays : a play in one act (1955)
• A view from the bridge (one-act version, 1955)
• A view from the bridge (two-act version, 1956)
• The misfits (1961)
• 1964-1982. After the fall
• Incident at Vichy
• The price
• Fame
• The reason why
• The creation of the world and other business
• Up from paradise
• The American clock
• The Poosidin's resignation
• The archbishop's ceiling
• Playing for time
• I think about you a great deal
• Elegy for a lady
• Some kind of love story
• Notes and essays on the plays
• 1987-2004. I can't remember anything
• Clara
• The golden years
• Almost everybody wins
• The ride down Mt. Morgan
• The last Yankee
• Broken glass
• The Ryan interview, or, How it was around here
• Mr. Peters' connections
• Resurrection blues
• Finishing the picture
• The glass still grows
• The half-bridge
• Captain Paul
• Buffalo Bill disremembers
• The battle of the ovens
• Thunder from the mountains
• Glider doctor
• Mare Island and back

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1987-2004 ISBN 9781598533538

Description

For Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-bill Danger: Memory (1987) to Finishing the Picture (2004), Miller's final stage work, based loosely on events around the filming of The Misfits, in 1960, with Marilyn Monroe. In between, Miller revisits the perennially rich themes that define his work-the vagaries of fate and chance, the press of public events on private lives-with such plays as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters' Connections, and Resurrection Blues. Also presented in the volume are the early play The Golden Years, about the conquest of Mexico, which Miller revised for its first production in 1987; several shorter one-act plays and never-before-published early works and radio plays; and a selection of Miller's incisive prose reflections on his art, among them "On Screenwriting and Language" and "About Theatre Language." LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Volume

1944-1961 ISBN 9781931082914

Description

"Miller takes his rightful place in The Library of America with this volume." -Library Journal (starred review) In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist confronted with his moral lapses during World War II; Death of a Salesman, the wrenching tragedy of Willy Loman's demise; The Crucible, at once a riveting reconstruction of the Salem witch trials and a parable of McCarthyism; and A View from the Bridge, Miller's tale of betrayal among Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, presented here in both the original one-act and revised two-act versions. This volume also contains the intriguing early drama The Man Who Had All the Luck, the first of Miller's plays to be produced on Broadway, along with his adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, the autobiographical one-act A Memory of Two Mondays, and Miller's novella The Misfits, based on the screenplay he wrote for Marilyn Monroe. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Details

• NCID: BA75082270
• ISBN:
  • 193108291X
  • 9781598531473
  • 9781598533538
• LCCN: 2011928608
• LCCN: 2005049442
• LCCN: 2014946641
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3525.I5156
  • DC22 : 812/.52
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00080739