The Man Who Had All The Luck

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781101992609

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A new Penguin Plays edition of the forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America’s greatest playwrights It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. This striking new edition finally adds Miller’s first major play to the Penguin Plays series—now in beautifully redesigned covers. Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, this parable-like drama centers on David Beeves, a man before whom every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble with ease. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering what David believes to be evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David’s journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness.

Author : Terry Otten
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264008

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The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller by Terry Otten Pdf

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521559928

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The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

This Companion provides an introduction to one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1417705590

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Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller Pdf

It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David's journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190289263

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Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002 by Steven Suskin Pdf

Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia! and The Graduate. A great read for theater buffs, the book is also a valuable sourcebook for critics, Broadway historians, and theater professionals, providing an array of statistics on every Broadway production of the season, as well as noteworthy off-Broadway performances. The intelligent and witty Broadway Yearbook, 2001-2002 will engage theater lovers, performers, and critics alike.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474270352

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The Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller Pdf

A man is a jellyfish. The tide goes in and the tide goes out. About what happens to him, a man has very little to say. Everything David Beeves touches turns to gold. He has a beautiful home and a loving wife, loyal friends and a thriving business. But as those around him trip and fall, David struggles to understand his fate. What if his Midas touch, like the flip of a coin or the pull of the tide, is nothing more than good luck? The Man Who Had All the Luck was Arthur Miller's first play to be produced, premiering in New York in November 1944. Searching philosophical and vehemently political, in intimates so much that will take centre-stage in his better-known work for decades to come. This edition was published to coincide with the revival at the King's Head Theatre, London, in September 2015 in Miller's centenary year.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781101992043

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Collected Essays by Arthur Miller Pdf

The collected essays of the “moral voice of [the] American stage” (The New York Times) in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Arthur Miller was not only one of America’s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectual voices. Throughout his career, he consistently remained one of the country’s leading public intellectuals, advocating tirelessly for social justice, global democracy, and the arts. Theater scholar Susan C. W. Abbotson introduces this volume as a selection of Miller’s finest essays, organized in three thematic parts: essays on the theater, essays on specific plays like Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and sociopolitical essays on topics spanning from the Depression to the twenty-first century. Written with playful wit, clear-eyed intellect, and above all, human dignity, these essays offer unmatched insight into the work of Arthur Miller and the turbulent times through which he guided his country. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Andrew Norman
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399040754

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The Real Arthur Miller by Andrew Norman Pdf

During his lifetime, US playwright Arthur Miller was affronted in numerous ways by what he experienced, either personally, or vicariously through the experiences of others. For example: By the way his immigrant family had come to financial grief in the Great Depression (1929 to the late 1930s), through no fault of their own. By the anti-Semitism that existed in the USA and elsewhere in the 1930s, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust in which so many people of his own ethnic group, the Jews, together with millions of other innocents, perished. By the way he and others, including many connected with the arts, were persecuted for alleged communist sympathies in the McCarthy ‘witch-hunts’ of the late 1940s and 1950s in the USA. By the way that atheism, to which he himself subscribed, was considered to be subversive and unpatriotic. By the way that the ‘American Dream’ was generally portrayed as something to which everybody could aspire: and yet, by embracing the concept of the American Dream, most people were generally setting themselves up to fail. Despite his disillusionment with life, Miller strove to illuminate a path to a better way and in doing so, offered hope to the inhabitants of the flawed and troubled world in which he found himself, not just in the USA but also elsewhere.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297857532

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Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby Pdf

Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005). This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays - including The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman - which are still performed, studied and lauded throughout the world. Born in 1915 to moderately affluent Jewish-American parents, Miller wrote during a fascinating time in American history. The Great Depression was a period of deprivation for many that left an indelible mark on the national psyche, and, like many, Miller found hope for the beleaguered common man in Communism. The Second World War elevated the common man to war hero, but when the Cold War subsequently began, the ugly elements of American conservatism freely persecuted writers and artists who had embraced Communism. Miller was among them. His refusal to give evidence against others to the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956 gave him a heroic role to play. In that same year, Arthur Miller momentously married the young actress Marilyn Monroe, a marriage that remains famous to this day. Christopher Bigsby's gripping, meticulously researched biography, based on boxes of papers made available to him before Miller's death, offers new insights into their marriage, and sheds new light on how their relationship informed Miller's subsequent great plays. After his death in 2005, many respected actors, directors and producers paid tribute to Miller, calling him 'the last great practitioner of the American stage'. Christopher Bigsby's supremely authoritative biography does full justice to Miller's life and art.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139826228

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The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby Pdf

Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, and his work continues to be widely performed and studied around the world. This updated Companion includes Miller's work since the publication of the first edition in 1997 - the plays Mr Peters' Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture - and key productions of his plays since his death in 2005. The chapter on Miller and the cinema has been completely revised to include new films, and demonstrates that Miller's work remains an important source for filmmakers. In addition to detailed analyses of plays including Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Miller's work is also placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay which reviews the key studies of Miller and also contains a detailed chronology of the work of this influential dramatist.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9781408836316

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Timebends by Arthur Miller Pdf

The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century.

Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108384

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Critical Companion to Arthur Miller by Susan C. W. Abbotson Pdf

Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : 1440618720

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The Man who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller Pdf

The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrights. It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David's journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351385855

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Routledge Revivals: Arthur Miller and Company (1990) by Christopher Bigsby Pdf

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and extensively about his own life and experiences, events and environments which provide material for his plays: his New York childhood, the Depression, the McCarthy witch-hunts. He discusses in depth both the technique of his writing and the moral and political questions which his plays address, and argues passionately for the importance of maintaining respect for human values in a world where they are so frequently transgressed. Interwoven with these conversations are contributions from actors, directors, designers, reviewers, and writers who have encountered Miller over the years – whether in person or through his plays – which attest to the universal and enduring importance of his work.

Author : Christina Britton
Publisher : Forever
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538710418

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Some Dukes Have All the Luck by Christina Britton Pdf

Ash Hawkins, Duke of Buckley, no more wants to marry than he wants a stick in his eye. As the owner of a gaming hell, he is all too aware the odds of a happy marriage are against him. But raising his three rebellious wards alone is proving more than he can handle. He needs to find someone who stands to benefit from a marriage of convenience as much as he does. Someone logical, clinical, and rational. And in a stroke of luck, he quite literally stumbles over just such a woman. After years of ridicule for being more interested in bugs than boys, Bronwyn has accepted that she’ll never marry for love. Her parents, however, are threatening to find her a husband. Bronwyn doesn’t need any scientific research to show her Ash has secrets. But his proposal would give her the freedom to continue her entomology research and perhaps finally get published. Just as long as she can keep her mind on her work and off his piercing eyes, broad shoulders, and wicked, wicked tongue.