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This volume features photographic portraits of Russian artists, writers, workers; scenes of everyday life; architecture and cityscapes; as well as landscapes of striking beauty. Text describes trips that Morath and Miller took to the Soviet Union and contains quotations from Russia's leading writers. Morath (1923-2002) was a member of Magnum since 1955. Miller (1915-2005) was a playwright and author. They were married in 1962. Photographs by Inge Morath; text by Arthur Miller. 240 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w and 12 color plates; 8 x 9.5 inches. Printed in gravure.

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Arthur Miller is one of the most important and enduring playwrights of the last fifty years. This new edition of The Theater Essays has been expanded by nearly fifty percent to include his most significant articles and interviews since the book's initial publication in 1978. Within these pages Miller discusses the roots of modern drama, the nature of tragedy, and the state of contemporary theater; offers illuminating observations on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, O'Neill, and Williams; probes the different approaches and attitudes toward theater in Russia, China, and at home; and, of course, provides valuable insights into his own vast dramatic corpus. For this edition the literary chronology and cast and production information have been updated, and an extensive new bibliography has been added. The Theater Essays confirms Arthur Miller's standing as a brilliant, eloquent commentator on drama and culture. No one interested in theater should be without this definitive collection.

Morath's photographs of Chinese scenes from Peking to Shanghai are complemented and expanded upon by Miller's incisive, informative commentary on recent Chinese politics, artistic expression, and life

The author looks back on his childhood, his memories of the Depression and the Spanish Civil War, his long career as a playwright, and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interviews is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with a sense of social commitment and metaphysical curiosity. These interviews complement the plays and his more formal and well-known theater essays, revealing his dramatic and aesthetic theories, his concern with language and structure, his awareness of the inner reality of his characters and how these concerns broaden to highlight universal social and metaphysical issues. Miller in conversation provides a unique insight into both the dramatic works and the man behind those works. Through forty years of the best of Miller interviews, similar concerns surface, but with one crucial difference: the actor/audience barrier is minimized, and the listener is left with the delightful prospect of engaging Miller, not through Willy Loman or Kate Keller, or through critics “interpreting” the plays, but through the very person who reinvented so much of contemporary drama.

For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage. Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator-but here, too, Miller the private man behind the internationally renowned public figure.Witty and wise, rich in artistry and insight, Echoes Down the Corridor reaffirms Arthur Miller's standing as one of the greatest writers of our time.

Looks at the similarities between politics and acting, reviewing presidents of the twentieth-century and their skill as actors.

The collected essays of the “moral voice of [the] American stage” ( The New York Times ) in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Arthur Miller was not only one of America’s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectual voices. Throughout his career, he consistently remained one of the country’s leading public intellectuals, advocating tirelessly for social justice, global democracy, and the arts. Theater scholar Susan C. W. Abbotson introduces this volume as a selection of Miller’s finest essays, organized in three thematic parts: essays on the theater, essays on specific plays like Death of a Salesman and The Crucible , and sociopolitical essays on topics spanning from the Depression to the twenty-first century. Written with playful wit, clear-eyed intellect, and above all, human dignity, these essays offer unmatched insight into the work of Arthur Miller and the turbulent times through which he guided his country. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Artie Miller's memoir is a charming look back at the 1950's and 60's as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing to maturity in New York's Yorkville neighborhood. He and his rascal companions make mischief for the adults (never the old, women or children) around them. But always in good fun. "Little Bastards of Yorkville" will appeal to anyone who has nostalgia for a vanished New York and its multicultural neighborhoods. Dan Fox is a published composer and arranger with a Master's Degree from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. In Miller's "Little Bastards of Yorkville," even better than the merry-or occasionally not-pranks recalled is the evocation of Yorkville in the 50's. This unrepentant romp through a gone but not forgotten time and landscape recalls an era of NYC and its ethnic enclaves of working-class kids: their street games, their entertainments and misadventures, their tenement culture, and their poignant, if sometimes resentful, excursions outside the neighborhood as they interact with an institutional and corporate Manhattan culture of the period. Catch the authentic talk and walk the walk with a narrator still smitten with a special time and place. -Jack Ostling, Vice President for Academic Affairs Emeritus SUNY-Nassau