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Aarnes, William 281 Miller on 6, 152, 161 Abbott, Anthony S. 279 and No Villain/They Too Arise 6, 25, 28 “About Theatre Language” 76 productions xiii, 159, 161, 162 Ackroyd, Peter 166–67 revisions 160, 161 Actors’ Studio 220, 226 American Legion 215 Adding Machine, The 75 Anastasia, Albert 105 Adler, Thomas P. 84n, 280, 284 Anastasia, Tony 105, 108n Adorno, Theodor 201 Anderson, Maxwell 42 After the Fall xii, xiii, 4, 8, 38, 59–60, 61, Angel Face 209 118, 120–26, 133, 139, 178, 186, 262, Another Part of the Forest 285 265, 266 Anthony Adverse 216 changing critical reception 269–70 Antler, Joyce 290 The Last Yankee and 178 Archbishop’s Ceiling, The 5–6, 8, 141, Miller on 54–55, 121–22, 124, 126, 265 145–51, 167, 168 productions xii, xiii, 121, 123, 124–25, Miller on 147, 148, 152 156–57, 270, 283 productions xiii, 159, 161–62 The Ride Down Mount Morgan and 173 revisions 141, 159, 161, 162n structure 7, 128 Aristotle 13, 64, 234, 264 studies of 282, 284–85, 288, 290, 293 Aronson, Boris 129 viewed as autobiographical/concerned Art of the Novel, The 237n with Monroe 4, 121, 154, 157, 195, Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies 269, 275 (UEA) xiv, xv, 162 Ajax 13 Arthur Miller Theatre, University of Albee, Edward 154 Michigan xv Alexander, Jane 165 Aspects of the Novel 235 All My Sons xi, 2, 4, 36–37, 47, 51–62, 111, Asphalt Jungle, The 223 137, 209, 216, 240, 246, 265 Assistant, The 245 film versions xiv, 157–58, 206–12, 220, Atkinson, Brooks 293 232 Auden, W. H. 42 and Ibsen 18, 19, 22 August, Eugene R. 285 Miller on 76, 77, 260 Austin, Gayle 64n, 285 productions 155, 157–58, 224 Awake and Sing! 26, 29, 76 studies of 280, 286, 290 Awkward Age, The 237+n and They Too Arise 27, 28 Ayckbourn, Alan 162 Alter, Iska 99n, 284 Altman, Robert xv, 194 Babbitt 288 American, The 241 Babcock, Granger 285 American Clock, The xiii, 137, 141, 151–52, Baby Doll 205, 218, 232 159–61, 168 Balakian, Janet N. 64n, 84n, 276

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Ball, David 284 Bredella, Lothar 292 Balsam, Lee 71 Brewer, Roy 106–07 Barbary Shore, The 239 Broadway 156, 157, 200, 201, 203–05, 224, “Bare Manuscript, The” 251–52 269, 271 Barlow, Dudley 284 Broken Glass xiv, 3, 4, 6, 8, 45, 180–84, 194, Barnes, Clive 143n, 157, 159 251, 264, 265, 268n, 271 Barry, Iris 292 Miller on 6, 180, 181, 182, 183 BBC xiv, 45, 162, 165 Bronson, David 18n “Beavers” 256 Brook, Peter 157, 283 Beckerman, Bernard 284 Brooklyn Bridge 112 Beckett, Samuel 5, 64, 119, 127, 150–51, Brooks, Richard 205 170, 234 Brown, Arvin 157 Behn, Aphra 234 Brown, Ivor 286 Beijing. see China Brown, John Russell 286 Bell for Adano, A 216 Brustein, Robert 128, 133, 157, 269n, 270 Bellow, Saul 238–39, 241, 245, 247 Bryden, Bill 162 Ben-Zvi, Linda 285 Budick, E. Miller 95, 289 Benedek, Laslo 204, 206, 215, 217, 218 “Bulldog” 251, 255–56 Benjamin, Walter 65 Burgard, Peter J. 18n Berenson, Mitch 104, 105 Burns, Elizabeth 286 Bergeron, David 279 Burns, Helen 175 Bergman, Ingmar 224 Burns, Tom 286 Bergson, Henri Louis 217 Bus Stop 205, 223 Bernstein, Leonard 226 Bush, George W. 190 Best Years of Our Lives, The 216 business ethics 288 Bhatia, S. K. 286 biblical references 122–23, 126, 137, 138, Caesar and Cleopatra 142 139, 146, 147, 150–51, 152, 171, 261 Cagney, Jimmy 105 see also The Creation of the World and Cahan, Abraham 238 Other Business Cain, James M. 208 Bicycle Thief 212 Caine Mutiny, The 215 Big Knife, The 106 Calarco, Joseph N. 283 Big Sleep, The 208 Calder, David 134 Bigsby, Christopher 46, 66, 84n, 94, 116, Caligula 173 126, 130, 132, 138, 142, 150, 162, Cambodia 155, 180 233n, 262, 270, 275, 276, 278, 282, Campbell, Joseph 282 289, 291 Camus, Albert 122, 173, 266 Billington, Michael 161–62, 167–68, 194 Canning, Charlotte 64n, 285 Billman, Carol 285 Cao Yu 155–56 Blakemore, Michael 125, 270 Capote, Truman 205 Blau, Herbert 282, 289 Carbone, Eddie (character): see A View from Bloom, Harold 77, 278, 280–281, 283, 285, the Bridge 286, 289 Cardin, Pierre 133 Blumberg, Paul 286 Carson, Neil 278 Blumenthal, Eileen 158 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 205 Boal, Augusto xii Cavalcade of America 2, 51, 254 Bogart, Humphrey 105, 216 CBS x, 51, 158, 159 Bourgeois, Louise 250 Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints xiv Bowles, Jane 47 censorship 276 Boyer, Paul 95 Center Stage 291 Brando, Marlon 111, 214, 217, 226–27 Centola, Steven R. 131, 270, 276, 278, 280, Brater, Enoch 133, 283, 290, 293 282, 285, 291 Brecht, Bertolt 170 Chamberlain, Neville 49

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Chandler, Raymond 208 studies of 278, 279, 280, 283, 284, 285, Chayefsky, Paddy 213 286, 288–90 Cheever, Susan 275 Wooster Group and xiii, 89, 283 Chekhov, Anton 170, 234, 267 Cukor, George 208 Children’s Hour, The 205 Curtiz, Michael 207 China xiii, 155–56, 158–59, 262, 291 Czechoslovakia 5–6, 145 Chinese Encounters xiii, 154 cinema: see under individual plays Danger: Memory! xiv, 159, 164–65, 168 Clara xiv, 159, 164, 165, 265 see also Clara Clark, Eleanor 269 Dangling Man 238–39, 240, 241 class issues 38–39 Dasgupta, Gautam 292 Clift, Montgomery 219 Day of the Locust, The 106 Clurman, Harold 129, 275, 283 Day-Lewis, Daniel 93, 230 Cobb, Lee J. xi, 81, 158, 188, 226 de Sica, Vittorio 212 Cohen, Sarah Blacher 290 Dead, The 223 Cohn, Harry 106, 107, 109, 218 Death of a Salesman xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 2–3, Columbia Pictures 106, 213, 215, 4, 8, 36–37, 47, 63–84, 111, 178, 185, 216, 218 196, 199, 262, 264, 271 Columbia Workshop 51 character of Willy Loman 4, 7, 64, 66–67, Come Back, Little Sheba 280 69–70, 80–82, 265 Communist Party 34–35, 188 feminist criticism of 64+n Compton-Burnett, Ivy 237 film versions 158, 204, 206, 212–17, 218, Connection, The 280 220, 227, 232, 294 Conrad, Joseph 205 Honors at Dawn and 36, 38 Conti, Tom 171, 174 imagery 69–71, 78–82, 133 Continental Distributing 224 influences on 77–78 Copeland, Joan 161 The Last Yankee and 176–77 Corrigan, Robert W. 278, 280, 286, 290 Miller on 3, 7, 66, 77+n, 83, 159, 215, 263 Cortés, Hernando 41–45 origins/sources 71–72+nn, 73–74 Costello, Donald P. 287 productions xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 64, 65, 66, Couchman, Gordon W. 288 67–68, 81, 155, 158–59, 162, 185, 195, Crack-Up 209 206, 224, 262, 282, 291 “Crack Up, The” 179 The Ride Down Mount Morgan and 172 Crane, Hart 112 structure 7 Creation of the World and Other Business, studies of 278, 279–80, 281, 283–87, 288, The xii, xiii, 141–45 290–91, 292, 293 Miller on 142 They Too Arise and 27, 28, 32, 34 productions xii, xiii, 142+n Debusscher, Gilbert 288 see also Up from Paradise Democratic Party xii, 5, 119, 139 Crowther, Bosley 229 Demongeot, Mylène 228 Crucible, The xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 3, 4, 8, 45, denial 118, 122 93–102, 109, 111, 133, 265, 271 Dennehy, Brian xiv, 185, 195 additional scene 98 Depression, the x, 1, 3, 4–5, 6, 38, 49, 118, CD ROM of 284 123, 137, 138, 139, 179, 181–82, 253 film versions93 , 170, 203, 206, 227–32, Desperate Hours, The 216 294 Di Giuseppe, Rita 281 and history 95, 96, 227–28, 289–90 Dickens, Charles 234 Honors at Dawn and 38 DiMaggio, Joe 188 interpolations in printed text 238 Ditsky, John 283 Miller on 93–94, 95, 101–02, 206 DiVincenzo, Tony Mike 110 opera based on xii, 89–90, 155 Dmytryk, Edward 213, 215 productions xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 93–94, 155, Dog Day Afternoon 224 162, 228, 283 Dostoevsky, Fyodor 205, 239

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Goldfarb, Alvin 274, 277 Heyen, William 283 Goode, James 293 Hiett, John 284 Goodman, Charlotte 285 Hirsch, Joseph 69 Goodman, Henry 181 Hislop, Andrew 164 Gorbachev, Mikhail 133, 155 Hitler, Adolf 24, 42, 44–45, 49, 165, 252 Gordon, Lois 281, 286 Hoboken 110 Göring, Hermann 252 Hoffman, Dustin xiii, 64, 65, 70, 158, 294 Graetz, Paul 224 Hoffman, Theodore 283 Grandpa and the Statue xi Hogan, Robert 280 Grapes of Wrath, The 31 Holbrook, Hal 127 Grass Still Grows, The x, 32–34 Hollywood 105, 106, 111, 197, 201, see also No Villain 203–06, 208, 211, 218, 232 They Too Arise The Crucible and 230 Grauman, Lawrence 293 The Misfits and 219, 222, 223 Great Disobedience, The x, 24, 39–41 Production Code 205, 218 Greek drama, classical, Miller and 7, 13–16, social problem films 212, 213, 215, 226 22, 64, 83, 139, 226, 227, 238, 261, Holman, Claire 94 266–67 Holocaust, the 4–5, 8, 55, 118, 121–22, Gritten, David 294 123, 124, 126, 130, 139, 185, 206, 253, Gross, Barry 58 291 Group Theatre 31, 45, 129 Home of the Brave 213, 214 Grynszpan, Herschel 180 Homely Girl: A Life xiv, 170, 250–51 Guernica 184 Honors at Dawn x, 24, 35–39, 40 Gussow, Mel 291 Hook, The 106–11, 115–17, 225 Guy Domville 234, 235 Horkheimer, Max 201 House of Strangers 207 Hadomi, Leah 281 House Un-American Activities Committee Haedicke, Susan C. 284 xii, 3, 93, 94, 97, 107, 109–10, Hagopian, John V. 287 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 188, 215, Hairy Ape, The 75 247 Half-Bridge, The xi, 32, 46 see also McCarthyism Halliwell, Leslie 219 Howe, Tina 156 Hamilton, William 293 HUAC: see House Un-American Activities Hammen, Scott 233n Committee Hammett, Dashiell 208 Huftel, Sheila 277 Hard Times 160 Hugo, Victor 234 Harper’s 256 Hume, Beverly 285 Harris, Bernard 286 Humphrey, Hubert H. 119 Hartung, Philip T. 293, 294 Hunter, Kim 217 Hass, Rudolf 289 Hurrell, John D. 278, 281 Hatful of Rain, A 205 Huston, John 195–97, 204, 206, 208, 218, Haugen, Einar 18n 219, 222–23, 247 Hawks, Howard 208 Hynes, Joseph A. 77 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 279 Hytner, Nicholas 206, 229–32, 294 Hayman, Ronald 260, 268–69, 277–78 Heller, Joseph 239 I Can’t Remember Anything xiv, 159, Hellman, Lillian 78, 97, 203, 205, 240, 285 164–65 Hemingway, Ernest 34, 41, 45, 179, 208, see also Danger: Memory! 221 I Don’t Need You Any More xii, 235, Hendrickson, Gary P. 290 246–50 Henian Yuan 291 foreword 235–38 Here Is Your War: The Story of G.I. Joe 201 reviews and studies of 292 Hertsov, Gregory 162 “I Don’t Need You Any More” 248, 251

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Ibsen, Henrik xi, 18–22, 31, 77, 78, 83, 139, Kael, Pauline 294 170, 206, 209, 261–62, 266, 271, 285 Kafka, Franz 239 All My Sons and 53, 76, 209 Kanamaru, Tosao 289 Miller on 7, 18–19, 21–22, 238, 261 Kane, Leslie 280 An Enemy of the People Katz, Sam 213 “Ibsen’s Message for Today’s World” 18 Kauffman, Stanley 143n, 293, 294 “Ibsen’s Warning” 276 Kazan, Elia 77, 106, 109–10, 112, Iceman Cometh, The 76, 279 115–17+nn, 188, 205, 217, 218, 232, ILA (International Longshoremen’s 246 Association) 104, 106, 107 After the Fall and 21, 117n, 123 I’ll Never Go There Again 207 Death of a Salesman and 67, 69, 72n “In Memoriam” x The Hook and 106–07, 109, 225 In the Country xiii, 154 interviews with 283 In Russia xii, 154 notebooks 282 Incident at Vichy xii, 8, 118, 120, 126–33, On the Waterfront and 108, 109–10, 139, 265 111–12, 115–17, 226 and history 128, 290 Keller, Joe (character): see All My Sons Miller on 4, 129, 131 Kennedy, John F. 196, 198 production notes 283 Kennedy, Robert 119 productions 127, 129, 133 Kernodle, George G. 287 studies and criticism of 128–29, 132, 290 Kerr, Walter 125 India 124–25 Kessel, L. 294 Inge, William 14, 201, 205, 223, 224, 280 Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla 155 Inheritors 39 Kiley, Richard 157 Innes, Christopher 279 Killers, The 208 Inside of His Head, The: see Death of a King, Susan 294 Salesman Kintz, Linda 64n Invisible Man 246 Kook, Eddie 67 Ionesco, Eugène 5 Koon, Helen Wickham 278, 281, 286 Isherwood, Christopher 42 Koven, Stanley 292 Israel 154 Kozlowski, Linda 70 Isser, Edward 290 Kramer, Stanley 213–15, 216, 218 Italy 105, 124, 125 Kristallnacht 180 Kroll, Jack 159n, 160 Jackson, Ester Merle 281 Kuckwara, Michael 281 Jacobson, Irving 293 Kurdi, Maria 292 James, Henry 234, 235, 236, 237+n, Kyle, Barry 162 241 Jefferson, Thomas 26 Lamos, Mark 263, 291 Jewish identity: see under Miller, Arthur Lancaster, Burt 207, 208 Jewish-American fiction, tradition of Landis, Harry 171 238–39, 245–46 Lang, Fritz 74, 207 Jide Guo 276 Lang, Stephen 64 Job 49 Langella, Frank 156 Johansson, Scarlett 200 Langer, Lawrence 290 Johnson, Kirk 293 LaPaglia, Anthony 200 Johnson, Lyndon B. 191 Last Yankee, The xiv, 175–79, 184 Joseph Andrews 234 Miller on 176, 177 Joy, Colonel 201 productions xiv, 175, 178 Joyce, James 123, 223 Laurents, Arthur 213 Judaism 25 Lawrence, Carol 225 Jurak, Mirko 292 Le Roy, Mervyn 207, 216

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Learned, Michael 158 Malden, Karl 217, 226 Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher 167 Malkovich, John 64, 158 Leicester, Margot 175, 181 Maltese Falcon, The 208, 222–23 Leigh, Vivien 217 Mamet, David 65, 276, 288 “Let’s Privatize Congress” 189 Man in Black, The 180 Levin, David 289 see also Broken Glass Levinson, Barry 200 Man Who Had All the Luck, The xi, xiv, Lewis, Allan 279 19–21, 46–49, 51, 133, 165, 186, 240 Lewis, Sinclair 205, 288 All My Sons and 52 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 121, film version 200 123 and Ibsen 19–21 Lindberg, Charles 42 Miller on 48, 49 Lithuania 155 novel version 46–47, 240 Little Caesar 207 productions 2, 47, 165, 197, 240 Little Foxes, The 203 revision 37 LoBianco, Tony 157 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. 207 Loden, Barbara 121 Mann, Daniel 206 Logan, Joshua 205, 223 Mann, Delbert 213 Lohner, Edgar 289 “Manners, Morals, and the Novel” 243 Loman, Willy (character): see Death of a Manocchio, Tony 287 Salesman March, Fredric 21, 204, 216, 217 Long Day’s Journey into Night 216, 287–88 Marco Millions 76 Longhi, Vincent James “Vinny” 104, 105, Marranca, Bonnie 292 112 Martin, Robert A. 84n, 276, 278, 280, 281, Losey, Joseph 209 283, 286, 288, 289 Lowenthal, Lawrence 128 Martine, James J. 96, 274, 277, 278, 280, LSD xiii, 89, 283 282, 283, 286, 288–89 Luciano, Lucky 105 Marty 213 Luft, Friedrich 291 Marx, Karl 26 Lumet, Sidney 203–04, 206, 224, 225, 227 Marxism 25, 26, 34–35, 38–39, 187, 256, 287 McAnany, Emile G. 280 Mason, Jeffrey 285 McCarten, John 294 Master Builder, The 19–21 McCarthy, Eugene 119 Mastroianni, Marcello 124 McCarthy, Joseph 3 Meacham, Michael 162 McCarthy, Kevin 217 Memory of Two Mondays, A xi, xii, 157 McCarthy, Mary 18n, 290 Men, The 213, 214 McCarthyism x, 21, 38, 93–94, 95, 96, 118, Meserve, Walter J. 278, 281, 287, 288, 291 121, 123, 124, 130, 139, 229, 289–90 Mesher, David R. 292 see also House Un-American Activities Method acting 226 Committee Meyer, Nancy 283 MacDonald, Dwight 201 Meyer, Richard 283 McDormand, Frances 200 Michigan Daily x McGill, William J. 289 Michigan, University of x, xv, 2, 13, 18, 119 MacNaughtan, Alan 134 Middle of the Journey, The 239 McNeil, Helen 294 Mielziner, Jo xi, 67, 205, 214, 282 McVeigh, Timothy 190 Mill, John Stuart 91, 92 Macy, William H. xiv Miller, Arthur Maddocks, Melvin 276 on Americans 181, 194, 197, 264–65 Maggie (character): see After the Fall awards x, xi, xii, 35, 39, 51, 156 Mailer, Norman 47, 155, 239 bibliographies on 273–74 Malamud, Bernard 154, 239, 245 and carpentry 2, 71

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Miller, Arthur (cont.) “Modest Proposal for the Purification of the “central theme” 184 Public Temper, A” 189 chronology of plays x–xv, 35 Modine, Matthew 195, 198 critical reception 267–70 Monroe, Marilyn xii, 4, 105, 106, 116, 166, diaries 45 188, 204, 219–20, 248 on films202 –06, 218, 230 After the Fall and 4, 121, 154, 157, 269 on history 263–64 Finishing the Picture and 195, 196, 197 interviews with 275–76, 291, 294 The Misfits and 204, 219–23, 247 and Jewish identity 8, 137, 181, 183, 193, Mr. Peters’ Connections and 188 253, 263, 290–91 Montand, Yves 228 on language 192, 194, 202, 231 “Monte Sant’ Angelo” 246–47 life x–xv, 1–6, 39, 48, 97, 105–06, 109, Montezuma 41–45 111, 118–19, 139, 154–56, 184–88, Morath, Inge (Ingeborg) xii, xiii, xiv, 128, 198–99, 215, 240, 247, 253, 256, 268n 154+n, 156, 166 sources of information on 275–76 Morgan, David 285 see also Timebends Morgan, Edmund S. 95, 289 on marriage 175 Morley, Robert 208 marriages x, xii, 4, 154, 166, 195, 197, Morrison, Toni 155 220, 223, 247, 248 Moss, Leonard 275, 277, 286 and morality 136, 266–67 Mottram, Eric 286 on his own work 167, see also under Mr. Peters’ Connections xiv, 185–88, 251, individual works 256 on parents 262 Munk, Erika 157 sources of information on 273–94 Murder in the Cathedral 42 and tragedy 8, 226, 227, 266–67 Murphy, Brenda 65, 282, 291 use of time in plays 125–26 Murray, Edward 277, 293 view of his audience 271 music 68, 227 views on drama/theatre 4, 5, 7–9, 14, 17–18, 45, 76–77, 119–20, 156, Natoli, Joseph 287 198–99, 259, 260–65, 286 Natural, The 239 views on reality 5–6, 8–9, 73, 172, 194 Nausea 239 Miller, Augusta (Arthur Miller’s mother) x Navasky, Victor 294 Miller, Isidore (Arthur Miller’s father) x, 1, NBC x, 51 25, 48, 49 Neeson, Liam xiv Miller, Jane (Arthur Miller’s daughter) x Neill, Heather 276 Miller, Jason 288 Nelson, Benjamin 60, 275 Miller, Jeanne-Marie A. 279 Nelson, Don 157 Miller, Joan (Joan Copeland) (Arthur New Playwrights’ Theatre 27 Miller’s sister) 161 New Theatre League 27 Miller, Kermit (Arthur Miller’s brother) xiv, New York City Youth Board xi 187 New York Herald Tribune 189, 190 Miller, Rebecca (Arthur Miller’s daughter) New York Times 229 xii, 154 Newman, Abby 72+n Miller, Robert (Arthur Miller’s son) x, Newman, Buddy 74–75 229–30, 232 Newman, Manny 71–72+nn, 73, 74–75 Mirren, Helen 162 Nicoll, Allardyce 35 Misfits, The (film) xii, 4, 126, 201, 204, 206, Nightingale, Benedict 158 217–23, 232, 238, 247, 293 Nilsen, Helge Normann 287 Finishing the Picture and 195, Nissenbaum, Stephen 95 196, 197 Nixon, Richard 6, 173, 191, 196 “Misfits, The” (story) 218, 220–21, 238, Nolte, Nick 201 247–48, 251 No Villain x, 6, 24–27 Miller on 247 see also The Grass Still Grows

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Sorrel, Jean 225 “Tragedy and the Common Man” 76, 102, Spiegel, Sam 226 280 Spindler, Michael 288 Travers, Peter 294 Stambler, Bernard 89–90 Trilling, Lionel 239, 243 Stanislavsky, Konstantin 69 Triple A Ploughed Under 31 Stanton, Kay 64n, 285 Trocsanyi, Miklos 279 Stapleton, Maureen 225 Trowbridge, Clinton W. 280 Steiger, Rod 226 Truffaut, François 224 Steinbeck, John 26, 31, 42 Turkey 155 Steinberg, M. W. 280 “Turpentine Still, The” 254–55, 256 Steppat, Michael 279 Twelve Angry Men 224 Stoloff, Morris W. 215 Twentieth-Century Fox 201, 225, 230 Stoppard, Tom 120, 156 Two by A.M. see Two-Way Mirror Story of G.I. Joe, The xi, 51, 201 Two-Way Mirror 7, 159, 168, 202 Strasberg, Lee 195, 196, 220 studies of 292 Strasberg, Paula 195, 196, 220 see also Elegy for a Lady Streetcar Named Desire, A 77–78 Some Kind of Love Story film version 205, 217, 218, 226 Tynan, Kenneth 133, 279 Strindberg, August 170 Stroupe, John H. 288 Unwin, Paul 165 Styan, J. L. 283, 284 Up from Paradise xiii, 156 Sweet Bird of Youth 218 Updike, John 154 Szondi, Peter 281 USSR xii, xiii, 81, 119, 133, 155

Tai, Stefan 285 Vallone, Raf 225 Tender Is the Night 30, 40–41, 176 Variety 226 Terkel, Studs 160 Victim, The 239, 241–42, 245 Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The 74 videos 284 Thacker, David xiv, 162 Vietnam War 5, 118, 119, 120, 138, 139 Thailand 155 View from the Bridge, A xi, xii, xiii, xv, 3, 4, That Championship Season 288 7, 15–18, 36–37, 104–05, 111–17, 178, That They May Win xi 202, 222, 224, 226, 227, 265, 268n Theater Essays of Arthur Miller, The xiii, film version 200, 203, 206, 224–27, 294 276, 280 and Greek drama 14–15, 17–18, 227 Theatre of Action 27 Honors at Dawn and 38 Theatre Collective 27 meaning of title 112, 225, 261n Theatre Guild x, xi, 30 Miller on 15–16, 105, 224 Theatre Union 27 opera based on xii They Too Arise x, 24, 26–32, 33–35, origins/sources 15, 104–07 37, 38 productions xi, xii, xiii, xv, 155, 157, 162, see also The Grass Still Grows 224, 283 No Villain studies of 280, 282, 284, 286, 287, 288 Thomson, David 216n versions/revisions xi, xii, 15–16, 104, 224 Thoreau, Henry David 179 Vogel, Dan 281, 291 Tibor, Frank 279 Volchek, Galina 133 Till the Day I Die 279 Voll, Daniel 294 Timebends: A Life xiv, 7, 159, 166–67, 220, Vonnegut, Kurt 214 263, 275 Vu du Pont see A View from the Bridge (film reviews of 293 version) To Have and Have Not 34, 41 Tom Jones 235 Waiting for Godot 127, 151 Toth, André de 209 Waiting for Lefty 35, 76, 108–09, 116 Tracy, Spencer 208 Walker, Philip 282

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Wallace, John M. 289 William Ireland’s Confession xi Wallant, Edgar Lewis 239 Williams, Raymond 18n, 266 Ward, Robert 90, 155 Williams, Tennessee 14, 39, 77–78, 170, 201, Warshow, Robert 290 203, 205, 217–18, 224, 232, 259n, 279, Watch on the Rhine 203 285, 293 Watt, Douglas 158, 159 Wilson, August 156 Watts, Richard 142n Winegarten, Renée 138 Way to Wealth, The 63 Winger, Debra 201 Weales, Gerald 98, 167, 278, 281, 286, 287, Wiseman, Joseph 127 288, 290 Witches of Salem, The (Les Sorcières de Weber, Eugen 294 Salem) 206, 228–29, 294 Welland, Dennis 125, 277, 293 Witness to Murder 209 Welles, Orson 48 Wolfe, Tom 75 Wellman, William 201 Wood, Peter 161, 162 Wells, Arvin R. 286 Wooster Group xiii, 89, 283 West, Nathaniel 106 World Is a Wedding, The 239 West, Timothy 162 Wouk, Herman 215 West Side Story 225 Wyler, William 203, 205, 216 Whitehead, Robert 123 Whitely, Alvin 280 Ying Ruocheng 155, 159 Whitman, Walt 112 Yugoslavia, former 183 Whitmore, James 158 Yun-choel Kim 280, 288 Widmark, Richard 105 Wiedman, Jerome 207 Zanuck, Darryl 109, 116, Wiest, Dianne 156, 157 225 Wild Duck, The 19 Zappa, Frank 65 Wilde, Oscar 234 Zeffirelli, Franco 124, 125 Wilde, Percival 35 Zeineddine, Nada 285 Wilder, Billy 207 Zhu Lin 158–59 Willett, Ralph 279 Zinnemann, Fred 213

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