ists, along with Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. (Murray, Edward. Arthur Miller, dramatist. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co.) There have also been other powerful, often mind-altering plays: The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. There was the film The Misfits and the dramatic special Playing for Time.( Huftel, Sheila. Arthur Miller: the burning glass.[1st ed.]New York, Citadel Press ) Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. Two years before, when his All My Sons opened at the Coronet Theater, Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote: "The theater has acquired a genuine new talent." The play also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Donaldson Award. Miller has since noted: "The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." (Murray, Edward. Arthur Miller, dramatist. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co.) He did dare and risk with Death of a Salesman. And, he gained more. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, he was catapulted into the realm of the great living American playwrights and also compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. (Murray, Edward. Arthur Miller, dramatist. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co.) After having returned to New York in 1938, he joined the Federal Theater Project, but, before his first play had been produced, the Project ended. He worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and wrote radio scripts heard on the Columbia Workshop and the Calvacade of America. He also wrote two books during thi...
