Convicts on the Loose in All My Sons and John Gabriel Borkman

Brucher, Richard

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Research Article| November 01 2020

Convicts on the Loose in All My Sons and John Gabriel Borkman

Richard Brucher

University of Maine

Richard Brucher recently retired from the University of Maine, where for many years he taught courses in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and in modern American, British, and European drama. He has published and presented papers on Miller, Ibsen, Mamet, and Shakespeare, among other playwrights.

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The Arthur Miller Journal (2020) 15 (2): 101–120.

https://doi.org/10.5325/arthmillj.15.2.0101

Abstract

This essay distinguishes several features of the Kellers' domestic tragedy in All My Sons by discussing it in light shed by John Gabriel Borkman, Ibsen's late tragedy about the family and social impacts of fraud, delusion, and denial. As well as exploring certain intertextualities—such as advice to ex-cons, excuses for business practices, problems with mothers and girlfriends, and forms of retribution—the essay takes into account the effects of repertory performance. It discusses productions of the two plays staged by the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 2016.

All My Sons, John Gabriel Borkman, intertextuality, modern tragedy, Arthur Miller and Henrik Ibsen

2020

The Pennsylvania State University

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