Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. Hist most famous work for the stage includes Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Thiago Russo is a psychoanalyst, master and doctor in American Literature from USP (Universidade de São Paulo). His PhD thesis partly produced at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) about Ride was elected the best in the program and was nominated best thesis at the Capes Award (one of the most prestigious of Brazil). He is one of the authors of Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave), and is currently writing his post-doctoral thesis about Arthur Miller's one-act plays and their sociopolitical contents at USP. Susan C. W.

Abbotson is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Rhode Island College, USA.