MAJOR PLAYWRIGHTS
ARTHUR MILLER
Arthur Asher Miller, also known as Arthur Miller was an
American playwright and essayist. He was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem,
New York. He was a prominent figure in American theatre and best known for
bitting criticism of societal problems. His best known play is Death of a Salesman. He received notable
awards such as Pullitzer Prize for Drama (1949), Kennedy Center Honors (1984), Praemium
Imperiale (2001) and other awards.
He was raised in a
moderate affluent household until his family lost almost everything in the Wall
Street Crash of 1929. After graduating
high school, he worked few jobs to save money in order to attend University of
Michigan. He has married three times, which was to Mary Slattery and had two
children. His second wife, Marilyn Monroe had two miscarriages and he had
another two children with his third wife Inge Morth. Miller begins his career
with inspiration from his playwright professor, Kenneth Rowe’s approach. He
died on February 10, 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut at the age of 89.
WORKS:-
~ Death of a Salesman
(1940)
~ All My Sons (1947)
~ The Crucible (1952)
~ A View from the Bridge
(1955)…
"The structure of
a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."
– Arthur Miller
SUSAN GLASPELL
Susan
Keating Glaspell or mostly known as Susan Glaspell was an American playwright,
actress, director, novelist, biographer and journalist. She was born on July 1,
1876 in Davenport, Iowa to Elmer Glaspell and Alice Keating. She received her
education in Davenport High School, Drake University and University of Chicago.
In 1899, she graduated with a philosophy degree from Drake University in Des
Moines and worked as a journalist with Des Moines Daily News.
Glaspell
with her husband, George Cram Cook was the founder of the Provincetown Players
(1916-1920), the Little Theatre that promotes American dramatists. Her
diplomacy and energy held the group together for seven years. Glaspell is well known
as the author of Trifles, one of her
famous plays. The play is about two women’s secret discovery of a wife’s murder
of her husband. Glaspell is famous for her feminist view in her works. In 1931,
she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her play Alison’s House. She died on July 27, 1948 in Provincetown,
Massachusetts at the age of 72.
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