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You can feel Miller exploring the theatrical terrain he was to make uniquely his own * Guardian * It is illuminating as a taster of themes that would return in Miller's work - father-son and brother-brother relationships, disappointment, the dubiousness of the American Dream, the hollow happiness of wealth - but here it also comes out as a piece about spiritual unease, about the deep disquiet of a man who cannot discern purpose or justice in life * Financial Times * Arthur Miller was 24 when he wrote this rich, passionate and compassionate play ... it should rank with Miller's greatest. * Sunday Times * Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what they do. This is more than a writer's craft, it is a psychological and moral openness to humanity, an act not of imitating, but of sharing. * Sunday Times * It's the Arthur Miller play that slipped through the net . . . As well as featuring his trademark dialogue - compelling, funny, full of ideas - it is also a grand experiment in which the playwright reverses the usual journey of a tragic hero. * Guardian *

You can feel Miller exploring the theatrical terrain he was to make uniquely his own Guardian It is illuminating as a taster of themes that would return in Miller's work - father-son and brother-brother relationships, disappointment, the dubiousness of the American Dream, the hollow happiness of wealth - but here it also comes out as a piece about spiritual unease, about the deep disquiet of a man who cannot discern purpose or justice in life Financial Times Arthur Miller was 24 when he wrote this rich, passionate and compassionate play ... it should rank with Miller's greatest. Sunday Times Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what they do. This is more than a writer's craft, it is a psychological and moral openness to humanity, an act not of imitating, but of sharing. Sunday Times It's the Arthur Miller play that slipped through the net ... As well as featuring his trademark dialogue - compelling, funny, full of ideas - it is also a grand experiment in which the playwright reverses the usual journey of a tragic hero. Guardian

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Arthur Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City. He was arguably the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century, his work including plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). In addition to the plays, his many other books included fiction, essays and the autobiography Time Bends. He died in 2005 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut.

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