“Arthur Miller may or may not be the greatest playwright America has produced – Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams both have equal, if not more, claim to that phantom title – but he is certainly the most American of the country’s greatest playwrights. He was the moralist of the three, and America, as some recent pollsters rushed to remind us, is a country that likes moralists. The irony, of course, is that Mr. Miller’s strongest plays are fired by convictions that assail some of the central ideals enshrined in American culture.”