Yuui
02-11-2005, 03:35 PM
As seen on various news sources, though I chose to reference Yahoo! News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050211/ap_on_en_ot/obit_miller):
Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.
Miller died at home Thursday night of heart failure, his assistant Julia Bolus said Friday, according to The Associated Press. His family was at his bedside in Roxbury, Connecticut, she said.
Miller's plays often involved families coping with ethical and moral dilemmas. In 1947's "All My Sons," the background was war profiteering. In 1955's "A View from the Bridge," it was the clash of immigrant generations.
And in his most famous work, 1949's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman" -- written in six weeks -- it was the question of loyalty and sacrifice, success and failure, both in business and among blood relations.
He was an astounding playwright. I've taken a couple of Theater courses and got to see/read his works; 'A View from the Bridge' is terrific, 'Death of a Salesman' is equally wondrous.
Cheers to Miller. :cool:
Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.
Miller died at home Thursday night of heart failure, his assistant Julia Bolus said Friday, according to The Associated Press. His family was at his bedside in Roxbury, Connecticut, she said.
Miller's plays often involved families coping with ethical and moral dilemmas. In 1947's "All My Sons," the background was war profiteering. In 1955's "A View from the Bridge," it was the clash of immigrant generations.
And in his most famous work, 1949's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman" -- written in six weeks -- it was the question of loyalty and sacrifice, success and failure, both in business and among blood relations.
He was an astounding playwright. I've taken a couple of Theater courses and got to see/read his works; 'A View from the Bridge' is terrific, 'Death of a Salesman' is equally wondrous.
Cheers to Miller. :cool: