Table Of ContentMACMILLAN MODERN DRAMATISTS
MACMILLAN MODERN DRAMATISTS
Series Editors: Bruce and Adele King
Published titles
Reed Anderson, Federico Garcia Lorca
Clive Barker, British Alternative Theatre
Normand Berlin, Eugene 0' Neill
Michael Billington, Alan Ayckbourn (2nd ed.)
Roger Boxill, Tennessee Williams
David Bradby and David Williams, Directors' Theatre
John Bull, New British Political Dramatists
Dennis Carroll, David Mamet
Neil Carson, Arthur Miller
Ruby Cohn, New American Dramatists, I960-I990
Bernard F. Dukore, American Dramatists, I9I8-I945
Michael Etherton, Contemporary Irish Dramatists
G. K. Gianakaris, Peter Shaffer
Frances Gray, John Arden
Penny Griffin, Pinero and Jones
David Hirst, Edward Bond
David Hirst, Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Helene Keyssar, Feminist Theatre
Thomas Leabhart, Modern and Post-modern Mime
Charles Lyons, Samuel Beckett
Gerry McCarthy, Edward Albee
Jeanette L. Savona, Jean Genet
David Thomas, Henrik Ibsen
Katharine Worth, Oscar Wilde
Further titles are in preparation
MACMILLAN MODERN DRAMATISTS
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Reil Carson
Associate Professor of English
University of Guelph, Canada
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Editors' Preface
The Macmillan Modern Dramatists is an international
series of introductions to major and significant nineteenth
and twentieth century dramatists, movements and new
forms of drama in Europe, Great Britain, America and
new nations such as Nigeria and Trinidad. Besides new
studies of great and influential dramatists of the past, the
series includes volumes on contemporary authors, recent
trends in the theatre and on many dramatists, such as
writers of farce, who have created theatre 'classics' while
being neglected by literary criticism. The volumes in the
series devoted to individual dramatists include a biogra
phy, a survey of the plays, and detailed analysis of the
most significant plays, along with discussion, where re
levant of the political, social, historical and theatrical
context. The authors of the volumes, who are involved
with theatre as playwrights, directors, actors, teachers and
critics, are concerned with the plays as theatre and discuss
such matters as performance, character interpretation
and staging, along with themes and contexts.
Macmillan Modern Dramatists are written for people
interested in modern theatre who prefer concise, intelli
gent studies of drama and dramatists, without jargon and
an excess of footnotes.
BRUCE KING
ADELE KING
FoR EDWINA
Contents
Editor's Preface vii
1 The Young Playwright (1915-49) 1
2 Looking for the World that Would be Perfect 14
3 The Man Who Had All the Luck and All my Sons 33
4 Death of a Salesman 44
5 The Crucible 60
6 A View from the Bridge 77
7 Non-Theatrical Writing 92
8 After the Fall 110
9 The Price 122
10 The Creation of the World and Other Business
and Playing for Time 13 7
11 Conclusion 147
References 157
Bibliography 160
Index 164
List of Plates
1. All My Sons, New York, 1947, courtesy: New York
Public Library. Photograph: Eileen Darby
2a. Death of a Salesman, New York, 1949: Lee J. Cobb as
Willy Loman. Photograph: Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts
Collection, Humanities Research Centre, The Univer
sity of Texas at Austin
2b. Death of a Salesman, London, 1949: Jo Mielziner's set.
Photograph: BBC Hulton Picture Library
3. Death of a Salesman, London, 1949: Willy Loman's
family mourning his death. Photograph: BBC Hulton
Picture Library
4. The Crucible, New York, 1953, courtesy: New York
Public Library. Photograph: Alfredo Valente
5. The Crucible, Bristol Old Vic Company, 1954. Photo
graph: BBC Hulton Picture Library
6a. The set of A View From the Bridge, New York, 1956.
Photograph: Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Collection,
Humanities Research Centre, The University of Texas
at Austin
6b. A View From the Bridge, London, 1956: starring Mary
Ure and Anthony Quayle. Photograph: BBC Hulton
Picture Library
7. The Creation of the World, New York, 1972, courtesy:
New York Public Library. Photograph: Inge Morath
8. Death of a Salesman, London, 1980: Warren Mitchell
as Willy Loman. Photograph: Donald Cooper
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