I've read and upped his works, the man is genius in the flesh, although my teachers didn't praise him even halfway enough.
2006-11-25 15:20:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Oh, I love Arthur Miller! Have you read his one-act, A Memory of Two Mondays? It doesn't really have a plot, but it's fantastic! Of course the Crucible is fabulous. Did you know he wrote that when he was in jail for suspected communism? That's where the plot came from. He died a year and a half ago. But yes, he was a genius.
2006-11-25 15:28:18 · answer #1 · answered by red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the play "Death of a Salesman" is a fantastic play about a man who is railing and fighting against the world and all its wrongs. I saw a very good production in London at the Lyric Theatre last year and although the play is hard-work to watch it was very good and I felt something bad would happen at the end.
I have listed some good links about the play and Arthur Miller below. I hope they are useful.
2006-11-26 04:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by gunnerboycelt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there. Miller is a justified genius. "All My Sons" is on tour, went to see it in Liverpool recently - wow! The printed word doesn't do justice to the power of the stage version, get out and see the plays when you can, that is where the action is. I think that his handful of best plays (Crucible, Salesman, All My Sons, View from the Bridge) are not only as good as ANY american drama but probably as good as ANY 20th century drama from anywhere, full stop.
Cheers, Steve.
2006-11-28 07:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by Steve J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I daresay he's powerful, but he's so bloody depressing and so pessemistic about humamity. I really really hated The Crucible - it is the world's most negative., predictable, bone crackingly obvious play (not to mention pretty far fetched). Plus The Misfits has got to be the most depressing bloody film of all time - I just oculdn't stop crying throughout, it was so bloody traumatic - and Death of a Salesman is pretty much the same. There really isn't room for any life or individaul thought or meaning or anything... and he had so tough poor guy! marrying Marilyn and all that...
2006-11-28 18:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a piece of the American Theater Canon. It is pure and unaffected. He stands with O'Neill and Tennessee Williams.
2006-11-26 01:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Miller is a great playwright, but his later output fell off drastically. I would put him at the top of the second rank of American playwrights, but (even considering "Death of a Salesman"), he's not in the league of Williams or O'Neill. This is no reflection on him, though, as even Williams had a sharp decline and O'Neill is (in my ranking) third only to Shakespeare and Chekhov.
2006-11-26 00:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by frozengrocer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death of A Salesman
All My Sons
The Crucible
View From A Bridge
Great plays. A great mind.
2006-11-26 15:34:01 · answer #7 · answered by Colin A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read probably hundreds of plays and nothing stands up to Arthur Miller's _All My Sons._
It's wonderful.
2006-11-26 03:04:18 · answer #8 · answered by Ninja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marilyn Monroe certainly did.
2006-11-25 23:50:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!! Death of a Salesman was fantastic.
2006-11-28 19:02:38 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋