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This comprehensive volume draws together essays by one of the most influential voices of our time, taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history: the Nazi war crimes trials, Vietnam, Watergate, the Balkan conflict and President Clinton's infamous liaison with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Millers views on theatre. The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller draws together essays from three earlier publications - Echoes Down the Corridor, The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller and The Crucible in History - to form this definitive collection. It is edited and introduced by Matthew Roudane, Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University.

This comprehensive volume of Arthur Miller's essays draws together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time. Arranged chronologically, these writings take the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history: the Nazi war crimes trials, Vietnam, Watergate, the Balkan conflict and even President Clinton's infamous liaison with Monica Lewinsky. From his personal experience, Miller writes passionate discourses on censorship and the death penalty, and Swiftian satire on the McCarthy witch-hunts; records his meeting with Nelson Mandela, and assesses the lasting impact of the Depression on an American generation. The essays are also a remarkable record of Miller's views on theatre, including such topics as the origins of modern drama, the nature of tragedy, what makes plays endure, the theatre in Russia and in the US. They give eloquent expression of his belief in 'the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone'. This volume draws together essays from three earlier publications - Echoes Down the Corridor, The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller and The Crucible in History - to form this definitive collection. It is edited and features a new introduction by Matthew Roudane, Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University.

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Essays: 1944-1950. Belief in America (from Situation normal) ; Tragedy and the common man ; The nature of tragedy ; The salesman has a birthday -- Essays: 1951-1960. Preface to an adaptation of Ibsen''s An enemy of the people ; Many writers: few plays ; University of Michigan ; Journey to The crucible ; A modest proposal for the pacification of the public temper ; The American theater ; A boy grew in Brooklyn ; On social plays ; 1956 and all this ; The family in modern drama ; Concerning the boom ; Introduction to the Collected plays ; Brewed in The crucible ; The shadows of the gods ; On adaptations ; Introduction to A view from the bridge (two-act version) -- Essays: 1962-1970. The bored and the violent ; The Nazi trials and the German heart ; Foreword to After the fall ; Guilt and Incident at Vichy ; What makes plays endure? ; It could happen here --^
and did ; The battle of Chicago: from the delegates'' side ; On the theater in Russia ; Broadway, from O''Neill to now ; Kidnapped? -- Essays: 1972-1980. Making crowds ; Arthur Miller vs. Lincoln Center ; Arthur Miller on The crucible ; Miracles ; What''s wrong with this picture? Speculations on a homemade greeting card ; The limited hang-out: the dialogues of Richard Nixon as a drama of the antihero ; Rain in a strange city ; On true identity ; A genuine countryman (from In the country) ; The sin of power ; The pure in heart need no lawyers (from Chinese encounters) --^
Essays: 1982-1990. The American writer: the American theater ; After the spring ; Suspended in time ; The night Ed Murrow struck back ; Excerpts from ''Salesman'' in Beijing ; The will to live: interview by Steven R. Centola ; Tennessee Williams''s legacy: an eloquence and amplitude of feeling ; The face in the mirror: anti-semitism then and now ; Thoughts on a burned house ; Dinner with the ambassador ; The mad inventor of modern drama ; An interview with Arthur Miller: interview by Matthew Roudané ; Excerpt from Timebends: a life ; Fabulous appetite for greatness ; Ibsen''s warning ; Again they drink from the cup of suspicion ; Introduction to The golden years and The man who had all the luck ; Conditions of freedom: two plays of the seventies -- The archbishop''s ceiling and The American clock ; Uneasy about the Germans: after the wall ; A conversation with Arthur Miller: interview by Janet Balakian ; Arthur Miller --^
an interview: interview by Christopher Bigsby ; Introduction to Plays: three -- Essays: 1991-2000. The measure of a man ; Get it right: privatize executions ; Lost horizon ; The good old American apple pie ; We''re probably in an art that is -- not dying ; The parable of the stripper ; Let''s privatize Congress ; On Mark Twain''s Chapters from my autobiography ; Clinton in Salem ; Salesman at fifty ; The crucible in history ; The price -- the power of the past ; Subsidized theater.