In the spring of 1948, Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabinin Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixedin his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of"Death of a Salesman" - a painful examination of American life andconsumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller'sextraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. Increating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Millerhimself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when aman does not have a grip on the forces of life.'
【作者简介】
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied atthe University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947),Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from theBridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963),Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of theWorld and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. He has alsowritten two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmedin 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters(1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs byhis wife, Inge Morath. His most recent works include a memoir,Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991),The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the OlivierAward for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter'sConnections (1998). He has twice won the New York Drama CriticsCircle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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