Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Arthur Miller, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web sites

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Literary Criticism

Bigsby, Christopher. Arthur Miller as The Poet: Chronicler of the Age. A leading Miller scholar writes an appreciation of Arthur Miller for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Bigsby, Christopher, ed. Publisher's site for The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Includes social and political context: the tradition of social drama; The early plays; All My Sons; Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur; Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible; A View from the Bridge; The holocaust, the depression [Great Depression] and McCarthyism: Miller in the sixties; Miller's 1970s 'Power' plays; Miller in the eighties; Miller in the nineties; Arthur Miller and the cinema; Arthur Miller's fiction.

Burns, Margo. Article on the historical accuracy of The Crucible, in the context of 17th century Colonial New England, by a history professor

Centola, Steven R. Arthur Miller and the Art of the Possible, in American Drama, Winter 2005

Crandel, George W. "Ditchy" Discovered: Arthur Miller's First Published Short Story, in Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1997

Desafy-Grignard, Christine. A review of Arthur Miller : Une vie à l’œuvre. (Paris : Michel Houdiard Editeur, 2003) Reviewed (in French) in Association Française d'Etudes Américaines, 4/2004

Linder, Douglas. Regarding The Crucible: The Salem Witch Trials, from Famous American Trials by (law) Professor Linder, Univ. of Missouri

Moss, Leonard. A short excerpt from the preface to Arthur Miller, (Twayne Publishers 1980)

Otten, Terry. Review of The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller (University of Missouri Press, 2002.) Reviewed in Cercles, by Christiane Desafy-Grignard, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne, 2003

Obituaries, newspaper articles

Lengthy NY Times obituary for Arthur Miller, 2/11/05

Boston Globe obituary for Arthur Miller

BBC news obituary for Arthur Miller and Another BBC news obituary for Arthur Miller

UK Guardian's obituary for Arthur Miller

A NY Times web page on Arthur Miller with links to original reviews of his plays, including the review of NYC productions of All My Sons in 1947, of Death of a Salesman in 1949, The Crucible in 1953, A View from the Bridge in 1955 and 1983. Also many Times articles about Miller (free but requires a one-time registration)

Miller, Arthur. "Allen Ginsberg was hawking his new magazine in the lobby. Warhol was..." Long article by Arthur Miller on living in the Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s. The Independent (London), July 13, 2002

Miller, Arthur. Miller on America, an interview with Miller, Literary Review, Fall, 2003

Back to Reality, a non-scholarly article analyzes Miller's techniques and achievement. London Review of Books, Vol. 26 No. 6 (18 March 2004) by David Edgar

"On Politics and the Art of Acting" a web site on Arthur Miller from the National Endowment for the Humanities contains a biography, Miller's 2001 lecture, an interview, and more

A lengthy newspaper article overview of Arthur Miller's career, with links to additional news articles about the playwright, from the (UK) Guardian, July 26, 2003

A Teacher's Guide to Arthur Miller, from textbook publisher Heath

Student's introduction to Arthur Miller from Houghton Mifflin, with bibliography

A lesson plan for teaching Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge to high school students, from the British Broadcasting Company

The web site for the Public Broadcasting Company's American Masters production on Arthur Miller contains an introductory essay and a timeline that places his work in historical context

Arthur Miller page in a companion web site to XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia's "Introduction to Literature"

Study guide for The Crucible using the Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder film version for comparison. A very professional study guide from the Australian teachers of media

Web Sites

The web site of the Arthur Miller Society has some brief information about his chronology, synopses of his work, and news about conferences and productions

The American 1950's Page, a list of key names and words for the 1950s, with explanations, from professor Al Filreis.

Carpenter, Charles A. A descriptive chronology of Miller's plays, by Dr. Carpenter. Includes bibliography

List of papers presented from 1992 to 2004 at the International Miller Conference, various locations

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