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~ Christopher Bigsby (Author) "No Villain, the play Miller recalls writing in the spring of 1935 rather than return to his family home, lays his new Marxist credentials on..." (more)
Key Phrases: metaphoric force, resistant spirit, flawed human nature, Willy Loman, Arthur Miller, New York (more...)
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'Bigsby's epic study is readable, comprehensive and profound. It's not a beginner's guide, and plot summaries rapidly give way to in-depth discussion, with brief biographical links rounding off each chapter. Given the massive task, the evidence of haste in some of the writing is excusable. This book is clearly a must not only for Miller fans, but for anyone wanting to know about the post-war struggles of the engaged artist - committed both to accounting for his life, and bearing witness to history.' The Independent

'... wide-ranging, indispensable study ... an in-depth account of everything Miller has written, including the voluminous variants of his work, his private papers and worknotes to which Bigsby has had access ...'. Jewish Chronicle

'A text of extraordinary thoroughness and insight. (it) is likely to remain the most sustained and penetrating examination of Miller's work for a long time to come.' Theatre History Studies

'... comprehensive and very thorough.' Contemporary Review

'While there is no shortage of books about Arthur Miller out there, this new study by Christopher Bigsby is surely one of the best and most valuable to date.' MLR


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Christopher Bigsby explores all of Arthur Miller's work, including plays, poetry, fiction and prose, in this comprehensive study. Using previously unpublished and unknown material, including conversations with Miller, Bigsby paints a compelling picture of how Miller's works were influenced by, and created in the light of, events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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No Villain, the play Miller recalls writing in the spring of 1935 rather than return to his family home, lays his new Marxist credentials on the table from the very beginning, with an epigraph from Friedrich Engels: 'Now for the first time a class arose which, without in any way participating in production, won for itself the directing role over production as a whole and threw the producers into economic subjection; a class which made itself the indispensable mediator between every two producers and exploited them both.' Read the first page
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metaphoric force, resistant spirit, flawed human nature, flawed humanity, human contract, sheer contingency
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Willy Loman, Arthur Miller, New York, Eddie Carbone, Joe Keller, John Proctor, Resurrection Blues, House Un-American Activities Committee, United States, The Archbishop's Ceiling, The Last Yankee, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, Marilyn Monroe, Chris Keller, Boro Hall Nocturne, Fania Fenelon, National Theatre, Soviet Union, The Misfits, Elia Kazan, They Too Arise, Memory of Two Mondays, Saul Bellow, Von Berg, Inge Morath
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