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Arthur Miller - Wikipedia

The document provides an overview of Arthur Miller's contributions to theater and his legacy, including the establishment of the Arthur Miller Foundation which supports theater education programs. It also details the donation of Miller's manuscripts to the Harry Ransom Center and highlights various literary criticisms of his work. Additionally, the document lists Miller's notable stage plays and radio plays.

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Arthur Miller - Wikipedia

The document provides an overview of Arthur Miller's contributions to theater and his legacy, including the establishment of the Arthur Miller Foundation which supports theater education programs. It also details the donation of Miller's manuscripts to the Harry Ransom Center and highlights various literary criticisms of his work. Additionally, the document lists Miller's notable stage plays and radio plays.

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Barkin, Bradley Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Tony Kushner, Julianne Moore,
Michael Moore, Liam Neeson, David O. Russell, and Liev Schreiber. Miller's son-in-law, Daniel Day-
Lewis, has served on the current board of directors since 2016.[96]

The foundation celebrated Miller's 100th birthday with a one-night performance of his seminal works
in November 2015.[97] The Arthur Miller Foundation currently supports a pilot program in theater
and film at the public school Quest to Learn, in partnership with the Institute of Play. The model is
being used as an in-school elective theater class and lab. Its objective is to create a sustainable theater
education model to disseminate to teachers at professional development workshops.[98]

Archive
Miller donated thirteen boxes of his earliest manuscripts to the Harry Ransom Center at the
University of Texas at Austin in 1961 and 1962.[99] This collection included the original handwritten
notebooks and early typed drafts for Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, and other
works. In January 2018, the Ransom Center announced the acquisition of the remainder of the Miller
archive, totaling over 200 boxes.[100][101] The full archive opened in November 2019.[102]

Literary and public criticism


Christopher Bigsby wrote Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography based on boxes of papers Miller
made available to him before his death in 2005.[103] The book was published in November 2008, and
is reported to reveal unpublished works in which Miller "bitterly attack[ed] the injustices of American
racism long before it was taken up by the civil rights movement".[103] In his book Trinity of Passion,
author Alan M. Wald conjectures that Miller was "a member of a writer's unit of the Communist Party
around 1946", using the pseudonym Matt Wayne, and editing a drama column in the magazine The
New Masses.[104]

In 1999, the writer Christopher Hitchens attacked Miller for comparing the Monica Lewinsky
investigation to the Salem witch hunt. Miller had asserted a parallel between the examination of
physical evidence on Lewinsky's dress and the examinations of women's bodies for signs of the
"Devil's Marks" in Salem. Hitchens scathingly disputed the parallel.[105] In his memoir, Hitch-22,
Hitchens bitterly noted that Miller, despite his prominence as a left-wing intellectual, had failed to
support author Salman Rushdie during the Iranian fatwa involving The Satanic Verses.[106]

Works

Stage plays
No Villain (1936)
They Too Arise (1937, based on No Villain)
Honors at Dawn (1938, based on They Too Arise)
The Grass Still Grows (1938, based on They Too Arise)
The Great Disobedience (1938)

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Listen My Children (1939, with Norman Rosten)


The Golden Years (1940)
The Half-Bridge (1943)
The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944)[103]
All My Sons (1947)
Death of a Salesman (1949)
An Enemy of the People (1950, adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People)
The Crucible (1953)
A View from the Bridge (1955)
A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)
After the Fall (1964)
Incident at Vichy (1964)
The Price (1968)
The Reason Why (1970)
Fame (one-act, 1970; revised for television 1978)
The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972)
Up from Paradise (1974)
The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977)
The American Clock (1980)
Playing for Time (television play, 1980)
Elegy for a Lady (short play, 1982, first part of Two Way Mirror)
Some Kind of Love Story (short play, 1982, second part of Two Way Mirror)
I Think About You a Great Deal (1986)
Playing for Time (stage version, 1985)
I Can't Remember Anything (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
Clara (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991)
The Last Yankee (1993)
Broken Glass (1994)
Mr. Peters' Connections (1998)
Resurrection Blues (2002)
Finishing the Picture (2004)

Radio plays
The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man (1940)
Joel Chandler Harris (1941)
The Battle of the Ovens (1942)
Thunder from the Mountains (1942)
I Was Married in Bataan (1942)
That They May Win (1943)
Listen for the Sound of Wings (1943)
Bernardine (1944)
I Love You (1944)

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