Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 3 1987-2004 (LOA #261) [Hardcover]

For Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-billDanger: Memory(1987) toFinishing the Picture(2004), Miller’s final stage work, based loosely on events around the filming ofThe Misfits, in 1960, with Marilyn Monroe. In between, Miller revisits the perennially rich themes that define his work—the vagaries of fate and chance, the press of public events on private lives—with such plays asThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan,The Last Yankee,Broken Glass,Mr. Peters’ Connections, andResurrection Blues. Also presented in the volume are the early playThe Golden Years, about the conquest of Mexico, which Miller revised for its first production in 1987; several shorter one-act plays and never-before-published early works and radio plays; and a selection of Miller’s incisive prose reflections on his art, among them “On Screenwriting and Language” and “About Theatre Language.”

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.TONY KUSHNER, editor of The Library of America Arthur Miller Edition, is one of America’s most acclaimed playwrights. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (forAngels in America, Part One), an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, and two Drama DeslÓ8