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Article: Arthur Miller--the making of a playwright.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 1, 2004
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Arthur Miller: A Life. Martin Gottfried. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 484 pages. ISBN 0-571-21946-2.
Successful writers must lament two inevitable trends in biography: to find that they are little more than 'part of a trend' or that their work is being re-read with a new political mind-set. These things have happened to Arthur Miller in the past. Teachers and lecturers feel it incumbent upon themselves, when teaching his great works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, to explain the context. This tends to happen at the cost of missing out the life itself. Now, thanks to Martin Gottfried, we have all we need in that respect.
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