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Miller also got remarried in 1962. He wed a woman named Ingeborg Morath. The two are still married and have a son, Robert, and a daughter, Rebecca. Miller once asked, "Can anyone remember love?" He then stated, "It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume." (American Masters). .
             Arthur Miller wrote many well-received and successful plays. His first Broadway production, The Man Who Had All the Luck, however, was not very successful. It closed after just six performances in 1944. Although it was short-lived, it did receive the Theatre Guild National Award. After his first play closed, Miller decided that he would give playwriting one more chance, if this next play failed, he would give up. In 1947, All My Sons opened on Broadway and was a huge success. This play established Miller a an American playwright. All My Sons received the New York Drama Critics" Circle Award and the Donaldson Award. Miller had found that "By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings." (American Masters). In 1949, one of Miller's most notable plays, Death of a Salesman premiered. This play became what all of his future works were compared to. Running for over seven hundred performances, Death of a Salesman received the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics" Circle Award, the Antoinette Perry Award, the Donaldson Award, and the Theatre Club Award. Another one of Miller's most notable works is The Crucible. Though it is set in Salem during the witch craft hunts and trials, Miller is making fun of the post-war hunt for communists in America. Miller said that "A play is made by sensing how the forces of life stimulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.


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