Among the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller is recognized today as a formative influence on modern American drama. His best plays seamlessly combine the psychological and the social to produce riveting treatments of the fraught relationship between the individual and society. This book gives in-depth critical discussions about his life and works.
Brenda Murphy is the author of American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, 1987), Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre (Cambridge, 1992), and, with George Monteiro, the editor of John Hay—Howells Letters (Twayne, 1980). She is professor of English at the University of Connecticut.