· arthur miller , american playwright who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives. · miller s lecture, entitled on politics and the art of acting, analyzes political events (including the u. s. Encouraged by the. Miller s most famous. Learn more about miller ’s life and work. His other notable plays included the crucible. · discover the significant contributions of arthur miller to theater history, from death of a salesman to the crucible At the arthur miller centennial conference in 2015, titled “performance and arthur miller. ” the most eminent of miller scholars, bigsby applies his thesis to the whole of miller’s career and perceptively examines the sometimes ironic and ambivalent · concerning himself with the american dream, and the average american’s pursuit of it, miller recognized a link between the poverty of the 1920s and the wealth of the 1980s. A look at the playwright s life and accomplishments. Mel gussow, a culture writer for the times, shares his thoughts on the legacy of the legendary playwright. · initially born into wealth in 1915, miller watched his father, an immigrant garment manufacturer, lose his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, upending the family’s social and economic status overnight. He is best known for death of a salesman (1949). Presidential election of 2000) in terms of the arts of performance.
