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The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition By Arthur Miller, foreword by Lynn Nottage New York: Penguin, 2015
Presence: Collected Stories Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition By Arthur Miller New York: Penguin, 2016
Collected Essays Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition By Arthur Miller, introduction by Susan C. W. Abbotson New York: Penguin, 2016
For those readers who can never get enough of the works of Arthur Miller, Penguin has released three collections of Miller's plays, essays, and stories in its Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions to commemorate the centennial of Miller's birth: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays, Collected Essays, and Presence: Collected Stories.
Collected Plays includes eighteen of Miller's most famous and popular works as well as some of his less often performed pieces. The "Note on the Text" indicates that the versions in this edition are those "preferred by Arthur Miller and should be considered authoritative texts." In her foreword titled "Letter to a Young Playwright," Lynn Nottage explains why she was drawn to Miller's works, offers some salient comments about All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and A View from the Bridge, and remarks how all of Miller's plays deal with "imperfect men and embattled dreamers" She discusses in brief the influence of the House Un-American Activities...