Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature & Professor of English and Theater
enochb@umich.eduModernism; Comparative Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; American; British; Emeriti
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Harvard 1971
Highlighted Work and Publications
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller
Edited by Enoch Brater
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they...
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Arthur Miller Plays: Six
Enoch Brater
Miller Plays: Six is the final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by Arthur Millerwho, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as 'the greatest American dramatist of our age' (Evening Standard). Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002 and 2004), it is the first ever publication of Miller's final play, Finishing the Picture. Inspired by his experience during the filming of The Misfits with his then wife Marilyn Monroe, the play was completed and produced at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, just months before the playwright's death in Feburary 2005.Broken Glass... See More
Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works
Enoch Brater
An affectionate, understanding, and informed study of Miller's life and works, supported by a wide selection of personal and public photographs. Arthur Miller was one of the most highly regarded and widely performed playwrights of our time. With his probing and perceptive dramas, he succeeded in charting the landscape of the American psyche to create classics of modern theater that have found enthusiastic audiences all over the world. Enoch Brater's concise literary biography gives the general reader a welcome introduction to this most political and moral of writers, whose keen social conscience... See More
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Edited by Enoch Brater
Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world. This critical edition offers a wealth of authoritative and helpful commentary by one of the leading international Miller scholars. Prepared in consultation with the author's estate, it is the definitive edition of the work.Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted and driven by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly celebrated... See More
Arthur Miller's America<br>Theater & Culture in a Time of Change
Enoch Brater, Editor
Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater.Arthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright Arthur Miller's theater as it reflects the changing moral equations of his time. Written on the occasion of Miller's 85th year, the original essays and interviews in Arthur Miller's America treat the breadth of Miller's work, including his early political writings for the campus newspaper at the University... See More
Arthur Miller's Global Theater
Edited by Enoch Brater
No American playwright is more revered on the international stage than Arthur Miller. In Arthur Miller’s Global Theater—a fascinating collection of new essays by leading international critics and scholars—readers learn how and why audiences around the world have responded to the work of the late theatrical icon. With perspectives from diverse corners of the globe, from Israel to Japan to South Africa, this groundbreaking volume explores the challenges of translating one of the most American of American playwrights and details how disparate nations have adapted meaning in Miller’s most celebrated... See More
Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett: The Falsetto of Reason (Diaries, Letters and Essays)
Enoch Brater
Review
"Both witty and approachable...There is a great deal of intelligent analysis here to enlighten anyone working on Beckett, and none if it is too abstruse."—The Stage
"Those who are still intimidated by Beckett's reputation should read Enoch Brater's witty, stimulating, brilliantly discursive reflections on his work. They'll end up finding both the writer and the critic far more entertaining than they dared suspect."—Benedict Nightingale...
The Theatre: A Concise History
By Phyllis Hartnoll; Enoch Brater (Revised by)
Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, worldwide in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theatre in the choral hymns sung around the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety of forms that it has taken in our own age.For this updated edition, Enoch Brater, Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Michigan and a specialist on modern and contemporary drama, brings the discussion up to the present day. He surveys new ...
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