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    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"
    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"
    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"
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    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"

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    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781535817882
    A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"

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      A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" - Gale

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      All My Sons

      Arthur Miller

      1947

      Introduction

      All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s first commercially successful play, opened at the Coronet Theatre in New York on January 29, 1947. It ran for 328 performances and garnered important critical acclaim for the dramatist, winning the prestigious New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.

      Miller’s earlier play, The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), had not done well and had quickly closed; therefore, at the time All My Sons opened, Miller’s reputation as a writer was based almost solely on Focus (1945), his lauded novel about anti-Semitism.

      All My Sons is now regarded as the first of Miller’s major plays. The work also greatly helped the career of Elia Kazan, who had first won accolades for his direction of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942 and after directing All My Sons would continue to work with the plays of both Miller and Tennessee Williams to produce both legendary stage productions and important films.

      In All My Sons Miller evidenced the strong influence of both Henrik Ibsen and Greek tragedy, developing a formula that he would brilliantly exploit in his next play, Death of a Salesman (1949), which many regard as his finest work.

      Author Biography

      Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. He spent his early years in comfortable circumstances, until his father, Isidore, a prosperous manufacturer, lost his wealth in the economic devastation of the Great Depression. After completing high school, Miller had to take a job in a Manhattan warehouse.

      He had not been much of a student, but after reading Dostoevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov he decided that he was destined to become a writer. He had trouble getting into college but was eventually accepted at the University of Michigan, where he began his apprenticeship as a writer and won several student awards for his work.

      After college he returned to New York and worked briefly as a radio script writer, then tried his hand at writing for the stage commercially. His first Broadway play, The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), closed after only four performances, but it did win a Theater Guild award and revealed the young writer’s potential.

      He had more success with Focus (1945), a novel dealing with anti-Semitism. In fact, at the time he wrote All My Sons (1947), his first dramatic hit, he was better known as a writer of fiction than

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