Arthur Miller
Subtitle: A Critical Study
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780521605533
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Drama; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Drama; Miller, Arthur; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1915-; 1915-2005; Miller, Arthur,
First sentence: 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.'