All My Sons – Arthur Miller

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Winner of the Drama Critics Award for Best New American Play in 1947,
All My Sons introduced Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. 

 

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Description

Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and became a wealthy man. In this commanding work, a love affair between Keller’s son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert’s daughter, the bitterness of Herbert;s son, George, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father’s partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father’s guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.

All My Sons first introduced the themes that run through Miller’s work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business ethics and personal morality.

About the Author

American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller’s autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.