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Yuko Kurahashi (volume editor) is Professor of Theatre in the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, USA. Her areas of speciality include multicultural theatre, community-based theatre and intercultural theatre. She is author of Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players (1999) and Multicultural Theatre (2004 and 2006).Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. Hist most famous work for the stage includes Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama.Susan C. W. Abbotson (series editor) is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Rhode Island College, USA.

One of Miller’s best plays: an exploration of our need for sustaining illusions because, as he himself wrote, the truth is too terrible to face ... But what finally makes the play moving is Miller’s honesty in recognising that we are all, to a large extent, the authors of our own lives.

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