Arthur Miller has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists
in the history of the American Theater, and his plays, a fusion of naturalistic
and expressionistic techniques, continue to be widely produced (imagi-nation.com).
Arthur’s first success came about in 1947 with the playwright All My Sons, which
won him the New York Drama Critics Circle award. This play was a family
drama that told the story of a factory worker who caused the death of several
American pilots by selling defective parts to the government.
His next and one of his most popular playwrights was Death of a
Salesman, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. Willy Loman, the
main
character, “was willing to sacrifice his life … to secure one thing – his sense
of personal dignity.” Miller received a lot of criticism from critics who were
against his “infusing” of pity towards the commonplace salesman. “They
insisted that Willy was a "little man" and therefore not worthy of the pathos
reserved for such tragic heroes as Oedipus and Medea” (imagi-nation.com).
Throughout Miller’s life he has written 20 playwrights, which
included the previously mentioned Death of a Salesman and All My Sons as
well as other famous plays like The Crucible, and Everybody Wins – which
was turned into a screenplay.
Everybody Wins is Millers first screenplay to be filmed since The
Misfits. Everybody Wins takes its’ starting point from Miller’s short play,
Some kind of Love Story. In this screenplay a private investigator seeks for
the evidence that will enable him to redress a wrongful conviction for
murder (methuen.co.uk).
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http://www.methuen.co.uk/everybodywins.html