美国文学阿瑟米勒arthurmiller.ppt

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)[1][2] was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible. Notable award(s) Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1949),Kennedy Center Honors (1984) 米勒的名字也为许多中国人所熟悉。他的《推销员之死》和《萨勒姆的女巫》等多部剧作曾与中国读者和观众见面。 1978年阿瑟-米勒和夫人来到中国参观访问，接待他的是曹禺先生。 《推销员之死》1983年在北京人艺上演，由米勒亲自导演。该剧是文革后第一个在中国上演的外国戏剧。?  Beijing in Miller’s 1979 Writing As we drive away down the quiet Peking back streets, mazelike and narrow, the thought returns that hardly more than ten percent of Chinese live in cities, and that…. Quoted from Chinese Encounters Included in Echoes Down the Corridor (179) Influence of The Great Depression on Miller Although none of Millers theater work is specifically autobiographical, it has been strongly influenced by his particular life experiences. An early influential event was the Great Depression of the 1930s Miller told the New York Times: “It [the Depression] made you want to search for ultimate values, for things that would not fall apart under pressure. A typical theme of Arthur Miller’s plays concerns the dilemma of modern man in relation to his family and work. (常耀信，《美国文学简史》299） When Arthur Miller began reading plays in college, Greek tragedies made a profound impression on him. He says that he was drawn to the Greeks “for their magnificent form, the symmetry.” Other themes of his play Millers realistic dramas explore the complex psychological and social issues that plague humankind in the wake of World War II: the dangers of rampant materialism, the sins committed in the name of free enterprise, the struggle for dignity in a dehumanizing world, the erosion of the family structure, e.g. sibling rivalry and the perils besetting human rights. and moral responsibility to family and community What are Arthur Miller’s main works? New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the be