The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller Book

	A Literary Chronology
	Introduction to the Original Edition
	Introduction to the Expanded Edition
	Foreword: Sorting Things Out
	Tragedy and the Common Man	3
	The Nature of Tragedy	8
	The Salesman Has a Birthday	12
	Preface to an Adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People	16
	Many Writers: Few Plays	22
	Journey to The Crucible	27
	The American Theater	31
	On Social Plays	51
	The Family in Modern Drama	69
	1956 and All This	86
	Introduction to the Collected Plays	113
	Brewed in The Crucible	171
	The Shadows of the Gods	175
	Morality and Modern Drama	195
	On Adaptations	215
	Introduction to A View from the Bridge (Two-act version)	218
	The State of the Theater	223
	On Recognition	237
	Foreword to After the Fall	255
	What Makes Plays Endure?	258
	Arthur Miller: An Interview	264
	It Could Happen Here - And Did	294
	The Contemporary Theater	301
	On the Theater in Russia	319
	Broadway, From O'Neill to Now	347
	Arthur Miller vs. Lincoln Center	354
	Arthur Miller on The Crucible	365
	The American Writer: The American Theater	368
	Salesman in Beijing	384
	The Will to Live	396
	The Mad Inventor of Modern Drama	414
	An Interview with Arthur Miller	419
	From Timebends: A Life	436
	A Fabulous Appetite for Greatness	455
	Again They Drink from the Cup of Suspicion	460
	Introduction to The Golden Years of The Man Who Had All the Luck	466
	Conditions of Freedom: Two Plays of the Seventies - The Archbishop's Ceiling and The American Clock	472
	A Conversation with Arthur Miller	485
	Arthur Miller: An Interview	500
	Introduction to Plays: Three	509
	On Screenwriting and Language: Introduction to Everybody Wins	514
	We're Probably in an Art That Is - Not Dying	523
	About Theater Language: Afterword to The Last Yankee	526
	Ibsen and the Drama of Today	544
Appendix	Play Casts and Production Information	553
	Bibliography of Works	569
	Index to the Original Edition	613
	Index to the Expanded Edition	622