Other than knowing that I wanted to focus on American literature, when I arrived at the University of Connecticut in 1990 to pursue my PhD I had no clear idea of what I would be selecting for my dissertation topic. For my master's thesis I had written on the short stories of Bernard Malamud and developed a fascination with the literature of the Holocaust. Having always had a deep love of theater and being assigned the excellent Brenda Murphy as my advisor, I was feeling drawn more and more toward drama, and so I first considered a dissertation on Holocaust drama and began reading as many plays as I could that could be seen as connected to that event. Having known Miller only through the plays of his that I had taught back in England at a secondary school prior to coming to America—namely the big four: All My Sons,...

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