The Last Yankee - Couverture souple

Miller, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350261319 ISBN 13 : 9781350261310

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2022

Synopsis

Written fairly late in Miller's career, The Last Yankee explores aspects of the American Dream through insights into the lives of 4 characters. This Student Edition features commentary and notes by Ciarán Leinster, University College Dublin.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons, closely followed by Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing includes Focus, a novel; The Misfits, first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and 'Salesman' in Beijing, non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Resurrection Blues. His novella, Plain Girl, was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence, in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.

Ciarán Leinster is a Dublin-based scholar, who teaches at University College Dublin, Ireland. His PhD at the University of Seville, Spain, focused on postmodernism in the late work of Arthur Miller.

Susan Abbotson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she mostly teaches drama. She is the author of Student Companion to Arthur Miller (2000) and A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller (2007) and numerous articles on Arthur Miller and other modern and contemporary playwrights. Past President of the Arthur Miller Society, she now manages their website and FaceBook page, and is the Performance Editor for the Arthur Miller Journal. She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (2003), Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama (2005), and Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s (2019). She has published articles on Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, and Paula Vogel in a variety of books and journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350261319
• ISBN 13: 9781350261310
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Éditeur: Leinster Ciarán
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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