C. W. E. Bigsby Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Arthur Miller's portrayal of innocent individuals destroyed by malicious rumor serves as a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the Cold War's 'frontier mentality.' This classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the 1692 Salem witch-hunt and the anti-communist purges of the 1950s led by Senator McCarthy. The narrative explores how the small community of Salem descends into madness fueled by superstition, paranoia, and malice, culminating in a violent climax. It serves as a fierce critique of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. Miller, born in New York City in 1915, was an influential American dramatist. He gained recognition in 1938 for his comedy The Grass Still Grows, but his major achievement came with Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1949. The Crucible was specifically aimed at the widespread congressional investigations into subversive activities in the US and won the Tony Award in 1953. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life, was published in 1987. If you appreciated this work, you might also enjoy Death of a Salesman, available in Penguin Modern Classics. John Peter of the Sunday Times described it as "one of a handful of great plays that will both survive the twentieth century and bear witness to it."

In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the key elements of the first edition, including surveys of those major figures who have shaped postwar American drama, such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, Bigsby also explores the most recent works and performances: these include plays by established dramatists such as Miller's The Ride down Mount Morgan and Albee's Three Tall Women, as well as works by relatively new playwrights Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, and Terrence McNally among others. Bigsby also provides a new chapter, 'Beyond Broadway' and offers an analysis of how theatre has formed and influenced the millenial culture of America.

Hester fled an oppressive marriage & embarked on a voyage which was to bring danger & death,Mystery & ritual and tempest & temptation.

Nietzsche said that he never travelled anywhere without a volume of Emerson's essays in his pocket, while Mathew Arnold described Emerson as 'the greatest prose writer of the century'. It is a remarkable writer who could at once appeal to a man considered a pillar of Victorian society, and to a man dedicated to bringing down such pillars. In his own time Emerson was considered a profoundly radical thinker, but after his death he was increasingly seen as a bland Boston Brahmin, contentedly ripening with the new England melons, benignly meditating on such viperous notions as the Over–soul.He is now appreciated as one of the truly seminal American writers, refusing all orthodoxies, complacencies and fixities—both a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. A unique paperback edition, with introduction and chronology of Emerson's life and times.