Conversations with Arthur Miller
Conversations with Arthur Miller by Arthur Miller, published by Univ. Press of Mississippi in 1987, offers a deep dive into the mind of one of America’s most significant playwrights. This edition spans 394 pages and is presented in English, showcasing a series of interviews that reveal Miller’s thoughts on drama, language, and the inner realities of his characters. The conversations highlight his social commitment and metaphysical curiosity, providing a rich context for understanding his dramatic works.
Readers will find that these interviews complement Miller’s plays and formal essays, shedding light on his aesthetic theories and the universal issues he addresses. The collection covers forty years of interviews, allowing for a unique engagement with Miller himself, rather than through the lens of his characters or critics. This format minimizes the actor/audience barrier, inviting readers to explore the insights of the man who significantly influenced contemporary drama.
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Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interview is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with a sense of social commitment and metaphysical curiosity.
These interviews complement the plays and his more formal and well-known theater essays, revealing his dramatic and aesthetic theories, his concern with language and structure, his awareness of the inner reality of his characters and how these concerns broaden to highlight universal social and metaphysical issues. Miller in conversation provides a unique insight into both the dramatic works and the man behind those works.
Through forty years of the best of Miller interviews, similar concerns surface, but with one crucial difference: the actor/audience barrier is minimized, and the listener is left with the delightful prospect of engaging Miller, not through Willy Loman or Kate Keller, or through critics “”interpreting”” the plays, but through the very person who reinvented so much of contemporary drama.
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