Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronology / Susan Haedicke -- Introduction / Christopher Bigsby -- The tradition of social drama : Miller and his forebears / Brenda Murphy -- The early plays / Christopher Bigsby -- All my sons / Steven R. Centola -- Death of a salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller / Matthew C. Roudane -- Conscience and community in An enemy of the people and The crucible / Thomas P. Adler -- A view from the bridge / Albert Wertheim -- The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism : Miller in the Sixties / Janet N. Balakian -- Miller's 1970s "power" plays / William W. Demastes -- Miller in the Eighties / Jane Schlueter -- The last plays / Christopher Bigsby -- Arthur Miller and the cinema / R. Barton Palmer -- Arthur Miller's fiction / Malcolm Bradbury -- Critic, criticism, critics / Stephen Barker -- Arthur Miller: a bibliographic essay / Susan Haedicke.