This Student Edition of Miller's play The Price is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's classic play. It features an extensive introduction by Jane K. Dominik which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a plot summary and commentary on the characters, themes and language.

The poignant autobiography of Arthur Miller, following his life from boyhood in New York to celebrity status. It includes numerous frank accounts, such as the first staging of 'Death of a Salesman', and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, "Death of a Salesman" has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish,...

Eddie Carbone is a straightforward man with a strong sense of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just. However, something deeper is wrong inside Eddie, something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.

In the Keller family garden, an apple tree, a memorial to their soldier son, has been torn down by a storm. It's not the only tragedy the family can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which dropped 21 pilots out of the sky.

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. When his brother Walter arrives, the talk turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on.

Quentin is a successful lawyer, but he is struggling with a sense of guilt about past relationships, particularly his marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie. 'After the Fall' is often seen as the most explicitly autobiographical of Miller's plays, and Maggie as an unflinching portrait of his ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew. Arthur Miller's chilling novel displays the same searing moral precision and emotional intensity of his plays, as the intensity of anti-Semitism in 1945 New York mounts, and the prejudices Newman shares begin to turn threateningly against him.

An Arthur Miller play set in Brooklyn in 1938. A woman is stricken by a paralysis in her legs. Her doctor finds that she is obsessed by the news from Germany that government thugs are smashing Jewish stores, and that this obsession is intertwined with her strange relationship with her husband.