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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Thiago Russo is a psychoanalyst, master and doctor in American Literature from USP (Universidade de São Paulo). His PhD thesis partly produced at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) about Ride was elected the best in the program and was nominated best thesis at the Capes Award (one of the most prestigious of Brazil). He is one of the authors of Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave), and is currently writing his post-doctoral thesis about Arthur Miller's one-act plays and their sociopolitical contents at USP. Klappentext ' Mr. Miller knows his audience. he is letting us know, the devil will have his due.' NEW YORK TIMES When insurance agent Lyman Felt is hospitalised following a near-fatal car crash, both of his wives show up at his bedside and his duplicitous bigamy is revealed. As his shocked spouses - the prim Theo and the assertive Leah - reel from this revelation and their husband's hypocrisy, an outrageous question is presented: is marriage actually easier this way?Touching on themes of betrayal, crisis and reconciliation, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is one of Miller's more controversial works, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1991. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Thiago Russo, with commentary and notes that explore the play's production history (including excerpts from an interview with director David Esbjornson) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it. Vorwort A new edition of Miller's 1991 play, which looks at the unravelling of a dual existence. Zusammenfassung ‘ Mr. Miller knows his audience… he is letting us know, the devil will have his due.’ NEW YORK TIMES When insurance agent Lyman Felt is hospitalised following a near-fatal car crash, both of his wives show up at his bedside and his duplicitous bigamy is revealed. As his shocked spouses – the prim Theo and the assertive Leah – reel from this revelation and their husband’s hypocrisy, an outrageous question is...
