introduction of Arthur Miller
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米勒简介及其主要作品
In 1940 Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck, which was produced in New Jersey in 1940 and won the Theatre Guild's National Award
In 1946 Miller's play All My Sons, the writing of which had commenced in 1941, was a success on Broadway (earning him his first Tony Award, for Best Author) and his reputation as a playwright was established
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In 1999 Miller was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Miller's career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century
It was the first play to win all three of these major awards（ Tony Award for Best Author ， New York Drama Circle Critics‘ Award ， Pulitzer Prize for Drama ）. The play was performed 742 times
Arthur Miller的英文简介
Arthur Miller的英文简介Arthur Miller Arthur Miller is a great dramatist to come out of the 1940s; he has led the postwar new drama along with Tennessee Williams. Arthur Miller lived in the postwar period. The history background of this period multi-faceted: The world warⅡ leaves people in fright and disturbance. Cold war and McCarthyism intensify the sense of fright. People started to doubt that technique really can bring people bliss. Besides, baby boom leads to the surge of population, which causes many environmental problems. Civil right movement in the 1960s gives black people much motivation, promoting the flourish of post war African American literature. Literature in this period is considered as “multi-cultural” literature. Many forms of post-modern fiction appeared, such as metafiction, anti-novel, surfiction, etc. The same mood in this period is despair, but continuing to search absurdity of modern life; lonely, but searching for the meaning of existence; identity. A typical theme of Arthur Miller’s conce rns the dilemma of modern man in relation to his family and work. What occurs often in a miller play is that the hero finds himself under a pressure from his society and its ethics, tries in vain to extricate himself from the physical and spiritual quandary into which he has fallen and finds release only in death, often in the form of actual or virtual suicide. The world is harsh. There is little or no choice for the hero. Either he submits to the impossible demands of society, or he rejects them. He dies in either case. Miller is, however, not completely pessimistic. Reading his plays, one feels a faith in man and in life, however vague it may be, though very often gloom overweighs hope. Arthur Miller is best known as author of Death of a Salesman. It is a sad version of the American dream. The staging of death of a salesman, his masterpiece, won him the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and established him once and for all as a writer of no small talent. When miller did was to wipe out the old realistic stage setting and go back to the Elizabethan kind of stage where the audience saw a house which was only a frame.。
美国文学导论课件 之ArthurMiller
8. Finishing the Picture (2004)
III Thematic Concern
"In all my plays and books I try to take settings and dramatic situations from life which involve real questions of right and wrong." 1. The idealist who pays too much for his inability to compromise. All My Sons' Chris Keller's insists on dredging up a past that holds unbearable truths. Victor Frank in The Price, sacrificed his career dreams to support his father but his virtue has brought the additional cost of resentment and the crippling inability to move forward when given the opportunity.
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Chris Keller, unlike his father, bears no responsibility for the death of his brother and other victims of the war. Yet he is haunted by the fact that he's alive while others died.. This theme of the guilt of those who escape, dates back to the playwright's first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck and recurs in After the Fall.
Arthur Miller
米勒受到歧视的犹太人身仹使他 始终以局外人之姿清醒地旁观美 国主流文化。
米勒兲注的焦点始终是生活 在美国社会幵与之斗争的个人， 绝大部分作品都在扮演其私人 生活中所遭遇的问题。于是他 的戏剧几乎成了20世纪前半期 美国历史的忠实记彔：大萧条， 二战，麦卡锡主义，冷战，这 些重大事件成了他重复使用的 戏剧背景。有人称之为 “美国的易卜生”。
In America, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929.
Tragedy and the Common Man
Winner of many literary and dramatic award, Miller is an important force in American drama. His major characters are ordinary and suffering individuals seemingly trapped by naturalistic circumstances. And yet, Miller points out, they have dignity if not human greatness.
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.
Arthur Miller
Though clearly an indictment of the McCarthyism of the early 1950s, “The Crucible” , the third of his major plays, was set in Salem during the witch-hunts of the late 17th century. Within three years, Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and convicted of contempt of Congress for not cooperating. A difficult time in his life, Miller ended a short and turbulent marriage with actress Marilyn Monroe.
Linda jolts Willy back to reality as he is about to leave the house in his pajamas. Biff and Happy come downstairs and ask Linda what is wrong with their father. She can only say that his is tired and deserves attention. She tells them that Willy is on straight commission and borrows $50 a week from Charley to make ends meet. She also tells them he has been trying to kill himself. Horrified, Happy curses his father and Biff swears he will find work and stay at home.
阿瑟米勒介绍
1990: Television production of An Enemy of the People, on PBS. 1991: Receives Mellon Bank Award for lifetime achievement in the humanities. 1992: Homely Girl is published (novella).
1937: Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too Arise, receives a major award.
Heads east to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during their Civil War, and decides not to go.
阿瑟米勒介绍 arthurmiller arthur miller source: weales, gerald. death salesmantext criticism.new york: vikingpress, 1967. october 17, 1915 arthur aster miller newyork city. 1920-28: attends public school #24 harlem.1923: sees first play--a melodrama schuberttheater. 1928: bar-mitzvah temple.1929: father?s business fails familymove brooklyn.1932: graduates from abraham lincoln high school. registers nightschool citycollege, quitsafter two weeks. 1932: various jobs, including singing localradio station truckdriving. 1932-34: clerked auto-partswarehouse, where he onlyjew employed hadhis first real, personal experiences americananti-semitism. 1934-35: university michigan,studying journalism. reporter nighteditor studentpaper, michigandaily. 1936: writes sixdays receiveshopwood award drama.transfers englishmajor. 1937: rewrite villain,titled, tooarise, receives majoraward. heads east abrahamlincoln brigade spainduring civilwar, go.1938: graduates english.joins federaltheater project newyork city writeradio plays scripts
1937: Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too Arise, receives a major award.
Heads east to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during their Civil War, and decides not to go.
阿瑟米勒介绍 arthurmiller arthur miller source: weales, gerald. death salesmantext criticism.new york: vikingpress, 1967. october 17, 1915 arthur aster miller newyork city. 1920-28: attends public school #24 harlem.1923: sees first play--a melodrama schuberttheater. 1928: bar-mitzvah temple.1929: father?s business fails familymove brooklyn.1932: graduates from abraham lincoln high school. registers nightschool citycollege, quitsafter two weeks. 1932: various jobs, including singing localradio station truckdriving. 1932-34: clerked auto-partswarehouse, where he onlyjew employed hadhis first real, personal experiences americananti-semitism. 1934-35: university michigan,studying journalism. reporter nighteditor studentpaper, michigandaily. 1936: writes sixdays receiveshopwood award drama.transfers englishmajor. 1937: rewrite villain,titled, tooarise, receives majoraward. heads east abrahamlincoln brigade spainduring civilwar, go.1938: graduates english.joins federaltheater project newyork city writeradio plays scripts
The CrucibleArthur Miller
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Act One cont…
Soon the Rev. John Hale, a specialist in witch hunting arrives and examines Betty who has fainted again. He then questions Abigail and Tituba. Tituba, afraid of being hung as a witch, professes faith in God and, after much prompting from the Putnams and Reverand Parris, confesses that two townswomen, Goody Good and Goody Osburn, came to her with the Devil. Abigail and then Betty claim they have been bewitched but now turn to God. The act closes as all the girls ecstatically chant the names of the townspeople whom they accuse of consorting with the Devil.
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Act Two opens in John Proctor's house eight days later. Deputy Governor Danforth has arrived in Salem to supervise the court proceedings against the townspeople accused as witches. Fourteen people are imprisoned, and there is talk of hanging. John Proctor's wife Elizabeth encourages him to go into town to testify against Abby and the girls. There is tension between the Proctors because Elizabeth has not forgiven John for his affair with Abigail.
阿瑟米勒及推销员之死简介
• Like all postwar America writers, he wrote in the wake of Modernism, under the towering figure of Joyce.
DoS was an immediate success…
• Death of a Salesman, 1949: “Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Happy. The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for best play, the New York City Drama Circle Critics Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The searing drama ran for 742 performances.[5]” /wiki/Arthur_Miller
• Papers: I’m grading the first bunch, then I’ll go over them with Edwina. Edwina will grade second bunch, then go over with me. Give me another week, svp. Will give next essay assignment next week.
DoS was an immediate success…
• Death of a Salesman, 1949: “Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Happy. The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for best play, the New York City Drama Circle Critics Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The searing drama ran for 742 performances.[5]” /wiki/Arthur_Miller
• Papers: I’m grading the first bunch, then I’ll go over them with Edwina. Edwina will grade second bunch, then go over with me. Give me another week, svp. Will give next essay assignment next week.
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a story of a traveling salesman, Willy Loman a metaphor ( 暗 喻 )for American society- who choose fame and wealth as the false goals for his life and is finally driven to suicide. It is considered to be one of the best American plays.
He had three marriages. The most famous is he married Marilyn·Monroe 玛丽莲·梦露 in 1956 on July 1st . Monroe was his second wife. But the marriage is not ideal, finally, in 5 years ended in failure. They divorced in 1960. And Miller married again in 1962.
Arthur Miller (1915-2005 )
personal information
• Name: Arthur miller • Chinese Name:阿瑟·米勒 • Nationality: America • Date of birth:The 17th of Oct.1915 • Date of death:The 10th of Feb.2005 • Identity: dramatist(剧作家) • Marital status: three marriages • Hometown:New York • Graduate College:University of Michigan
After graduating from high school, Miller worked jobs ranging from radio singer to truck driver to clerk in an automobile-parts warehouse(仓库). Miller began writing plays as a student at the University of Michigan, joining the Federal Theater Project in New York City after he received his degree.
时间 1947 年 1949 年 1953 年 1955 年 1964 年 1968 年 1980 年
His works
中文名称 戏剧《我的儿子们》 戏剧《推销员之死》 戏剧《萨勒姆的女巫》 戏剧《桥头眺望》 戏剧《维系事件》
戏剧《代价》 戏剧《美国大钟》
英文名称 All my sons Death of a Salesman The Crucible A View from the Bridge Incident at Vichy The Price The American Clock the son of a women's clothing company owner, was born in 1915 in New York City. His father lost his business in the Depression and the family was forced to move to a smaller home in Brooklyn.