[英语学习]美国文学 阿瑟米勒 arthur miller.ppt

Arthur Miller(1915-2005)
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who is he
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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)
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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。
Acceptance of Miller in China
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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)
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his early life
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Arthur Asher Miller, the son of a women's pany owner, was born in 1915 in New York City. His father lost his business in the Depression and the family was forced to move to a smaller home in Brooklyn.
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After graduating from high school, Miller worked jobs ranging from radio singer to truck driver to clerk in an automobile-parts warehouse. Miller began writing plays as a student at the University of Michigan, joining the Federal Theater Project in New York City after he received his degree.
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Influence of The Great Depression on Miller
Although none of Miller's 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
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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."
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