In Defense of Historical Literature1967 |
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Page 27
... Miller's understanding of the difficulties rather than in the experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of ...
... Miller's understanding of the difficulties rather than in the experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of ...
Page 88
... Miller's dramatic skill and Jean Paul Sartre's part in producing the French film version , there are several reasons for this popularity . The subject , of course , is adaptable to the stage , and Arthur Miller has taken advantage of ...
... Miller's dramatic skill and Jean Paul Sartre's part in producing the French film version , there are several reasons for this popularity . The subject , of course , is adaptable to the stage , and Arthur Miller has taken advantage of ...
Page 91
... Miller remarks scrupulously that he has changed the age of Abigail Williams from eleven to seventeen in order to make her eligible for adultery . But this apparently minor change alters the entire historical situation . For Mr. Miller's ...
... Miller remarks scrupulously that he has changed the age of Abigail Williams from eleven to seventeen in order to make her eligible for adultery . But this apparently minor change alters the entire historical situation . For Mr. Miller's ...
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