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Book by Martin Gottfried
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Martin Gottfried was meer dan veertig jaar lang theatercriticus in New York, waarbij hij zich verdiepte in de analyse van theatrale optredens en hun impact op het publiek. Met een scherp begrip van de nuances van de kunstvorm en de historische context ervan, bracht hij een indringend inzicht in zijn recensies. Zijn schrijfstijl onthult hoe theater de maatschappij weerspiegelt en vormgeeft, en onderzoekt de blijvende invloed van dramatische werken op het culturele landschap. Zijn bijdragen getuigen van zijn gepassioneerde toewijding aan de podiumkunsten.
Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman . But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a rich life, much of it shrouded from public view. To achieve this groundbreaking portrait of the artist and the man, the award-winning drama critic and biographer Martin Gottfried masterfully draws on his interviews with those who have known Miller throughout his personal and professional life, on Miller's voluminous lifelong correspondence, and on the annotated scripts and notebooks that reveal Miller's creative process in stunning detail. From Miller's childhood and adolescence in Depression-era New York City to his formative college years in Michigan…from the numerous early professional rejections to the 1947 play All My Sons that established him as a voice to be reckoned with…from his heroic defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy years to his most unlikely pairing with Marilyn Monroe… from political and social activism on the world stage to an extraordinary professional vitality even as he turns 88 in October 2003 (he is still writing plays, and stage revivals and film adaptations of his classics proliferate): here is a dazzling book-a literary event of the first order.
