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Article: Arthur Miller's Words and Deeds.(Arthur Miller: His Life and Work)(Book Review)
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- Queen's Quarterly
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- September 22, 2004
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Arthur Miller: His Life and Work, by Martin Gottfried (Da Capo Press, 2003)
Americans of Arthur Miller's time endured the Great Depression and two world wars. And yet this toughest of generations was routinely moved to tears by Miller's dramas about the pain of ordinary American life. After the curtain dropped, there would often be stunned silence in the theatre, and then the sound of sobbing.
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ARTHUR MILLER'S stature as the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century may remain an unsettled issue, since Eugene O'Neill and perhaps Tennessee Williams are still candidates for that crown. Martin Gottfried, an experienced drama ...