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This study uncovers untapped symbolic layers in some of Miller's best-known plays by linking them to famed media events or social concerns corresponding to each play's initial production. This book broadens the scholarship on Arthur Miller by applying cultural semiotics, cultural anthropology and new historicism to the reception of Miller's major plays. Chapters on All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and Incident at Vichy alter the significations of the plays by connecting the works to parallel contemporary events that inform the way these plays may have resonated with their original audiences. This book offers one of the first major reassessments of the plays of Arthur Miller after his death, and the first book in general to apply a significant semiotic study to his work.

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This volume makes a substantial contribution both to our understanding of Arthur Miller's plays and to the practice and use of cultural criticism in relation to drama and theater. It should be read by critics, scholars, and students of drama and theater as well as those who are interested in cultural criticism and theory. -Prof. Brenda Murphy University of Connecticut This work fills a much-needed gap in Miller scholarship and also opens up a new area of analysis which can be applied to other plays -Prof. Stephen Marino St. Francis College

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