Selected Secondary Bibliography

Selected Secondary Bibliography on Miller’s Works

Abbotson, Susan C. W. Critical Companion to Arthur Miller. Facts on File, 2008.
—. Student Companion to Arthur Miller.  Greenwood Press, 2000.
Adam, Julie. Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama: Redefinitions by Miller,, O’Neill, and Anderson. St. Martin’s, 1991.
Ali, Syed Mashkoor, ed. Arthur Miller: Twentieth Century Legend.  Jaipur, India: Surabhi, 2006.
Alter, Iska. “Betrayal and Blessedness: Explorations of Feminine Power in The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, and After the Fall.” Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama. Ed. June Schlueter. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989.
Bhatia, Santosh K. Arthur Miller: Social Drama as Tragedy.  Humanities, 1985.
Bigsby, C. W. E.  “Arthur Miller.”  A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume Two Williams/Miller/Albee. Cambridge University Press, 1984:  135-248.
—.  Arthur Miller: A Critical Study.  Cambridge University Press, 2005.
—.  Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography. 2 volumes. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008, 2011.
—,  ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller.  Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Bloom, Harold, ed.  Arthur Miller. Rev. ed. Chelsea House, 2003.
—, ed. Arthur Miller.  Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2007.
Brater, Enoch. Arthur Miller: A Playwright’s Life and Work.  Thames and Hudson, 2005.
—, ed. Arthur Miller’s America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
—, ed. Arthur Miller’s Global Theater. University of Michigan Press, 2007.
—.  “Ethnics and Ethnicity in the Plays of Arthur Miller.” From Hester Street to Hollywood.  Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Indiana University Press, 1983:  123-36.
—. ed. A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass. Methuen, 2013
Carson, Neil. Arthur Miller.  2nd. Ed. Macmillan, 2008.
Centola, Steven, ed. The Achievement of Arthur Miller: New Essays. Contemporary Research, 1995.
Corrigan, Robert W., ed. Arthur Miller: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Driver, Tom.  “Strength and Weakness in Arthur Miller.” Tulane Drama Review  4 (May 1960):  45-52.
Dukore, Bernard F. Death of a Salesman and The Crucible: Text and Performance. Humanities, 1989.
Espejo, Ramón, and Juan Ignacio Guijarro, eds. Arthur Miller: Visiones desde el nuevo milenio. Valencia: University of Valencia, 2004. [Spanish and English]
Espejo, Ramón. España y el teatro de Arthur Miller. Alcalá de Henares: Instituto Franklin, 2010. [Spanish]
Evans, Robert C., ed. Critical Insights: The Crucible. Salem Press, 2018.
Fisher, Jim. Miller in an Hour. Smith and Kraus, 2010.
Gordon, Lois. “Arthur Miller.”  Contemporary American Dramatists.  Ed. K. A. Berney. James, 1994:  407-414.
Gottfried, Martin. Arthur Miller: His Life and Work.  Da Capo, 2003.
Griffin, Alice. Understanding Arthur Miller. University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Hayman, Ronald. Arthur Miller. Ungar, 1972.
Hogan, Robert. Arthur Miller. University of Minnesota Press, 1964.
Huftel, Sheila. Arthur Miller: The Burning Glass. Citadel, 1965.
Colt, Robert Paul. Robert Ward’s The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Koorey, Stefani. Arthur Miller’s Life and Literature: An Annotated and Comprehensive Guide. Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Kumar, Satyendra. The Allegory of Quest: A Study in Arthur Miller’s Plays.New Delhi, India: Kalpaz Publications, 2004.
Langteau, Paula, ed. Miller and Middle America: Essays on Arthur Miller and the American Experience. UP of America, 2007.
Londré, Felicia Hardison, ed. Modern American Drama. Playwriting in the 1940s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Marino, Stephen. A Language Study of Arthur Miller’s Plays: The Poetic in the ColloquialMellen, 2002.
Marino, Stephen, ed. Arthur Miller’s Century: Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
—.Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman / The Crucible: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. Macmillan/Palgrave, 2015.
Marino, Stephen, and David Palmer. Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of his Writings and Ideals. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Martin, Robert A., ed. Arthur Miller: New Perspectives. Prentice-Hall, 1982.
—.  “Arthur Miller: Public Issues, Private Tensions.”  Studies in the Literary Imagination
21.2 (1988):  97-106.
Martine, James J., ed. Critical Essays on Arthur Miller. Hall, 1979.
Mason, Jeffrey. Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller. University of Michigan Press, 2008.
Meyer, Richard D. Making the Fall. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
Moss, Leonard. Arthur Miller.  2nd. ed.  Twayne, 1980.
Murphy, Brenda. “Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism.” Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition.Ed. William W. Demastes. University of Alabama Press, 1996:  189-202.
-. ed. Arthur Miller: Critical Insights. Salem Press, 2010
Murray, Edward. Arthur Miller, Dramatist. Ungar, 1967.
Nanda, Silima. Faces of Miller Women. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 2007.
Nelson, Benjamin. Arthur Miller: Portrait of a Playwright. McKay, 1970.
Novick, Julius. Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Oikawa, Masahiro. Arthur Miller Gekini Okeru Rinrisei (Morality in Arthur Miller’s Plays). Kinseido, Tokyo, 2008. [Japanese]
Otten, Terry. The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur MillerU of Missouri P, 2002.
Overland, Orm. The Action and its Significance: Arthur Miller’s Struggle with Dramatic Form.” Modern Drama 17 (1975): 1-14.
Parker, Dorothy, ed. Essays on Modern American Drama: Williams, Miller, Albee and Shepard. University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Polster, Joshua E. Reinterpreting the Plays of Arthur Miller. Mellen, 2010.
Prudoe, John.  “Arthur Miller and the Tradition of Tragedy.” English Studies 43 (1962):  430-39.
Ram, Atma, ed.Perspectives on Arthur MillerNew Delhi: Abhinav, 1988.
Savran, David. Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. University of Minneapolis Press, 1992.
Scanlan, Tom. Family, Drama, and American Dreams. Greenwood, 1978.
Schlueter, June and James K. Flanagan. Arthur Miller. Ungar, 1987.
Sterling, Eric, ed. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (Dialogue). Rodophi, 2008.
Siebold, Thomas, ed.Readings on Arthur Miller. Greenhaven, 1997.
Steinberg, M.W. “Arthur Miller and the Idea of Modern Tragedy.” Dalhousie Review 40 (1961):  329-40.
Trowbridge, Clinton W. “Arthur Miller: Between Pathos and Tragedy.” Modern Drama 10 (1967): 221-32.
Trudeau, Lawrence, ed. Contemporary Literature Criticism on Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Gale/Cengage, 2018.
Vajda, Miklos. “Arthur Miller: Moralist as Playwright.”  New Hungarian Quarterly 16 (1975):  171-80.
Viswamohan, Aysha. Arthur Miller: The Dramatist and His UniverseChennai: T.R. Publications, 2005.
Welland, Dennis. Miller: The Playwright. 3rd. ed. Methuen, 1985.
Williams, Raymond. “The Realism of Arthur Miller.” Critical Quarterly 1 (1959):  34-37.
Yim, Harksoon. “Arthur Miller’s Theory of Tragedy and Its Practice in All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1996):  57-63.

Also check out publications on our Recent Publications page that include volumes that just include pieces on Miller: here we list books that are predominantly focused on Miller alone.