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7th September 2008

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Scholarly approach to Miller and Shaw

17.03.08 Benedicte Page

Methuen Drama has struck an agreement with the estate of Arthur Miller to publish a new series of scholarly editions of the playwright's key works. Publishing director Jonathan Glasspool said he expected the titles, for which director Sir Richard Eyre and academic Professor Kenneth T Rowe are on the advisory board, to be "a landmark series in drama publishing".

Miller's novelist daughter Rebecca described them as "the definitive editions for students and scholars for many years to come".

The publisher will also reissue the complete set of Miller's plays in six volumes in early 2009, saying that while at present there are annotated editions suitable for schools, there are no modern editions of the plays with critical commentary aimed at a higher level.

Methuen Drama is also publishing the first scholarly editions of George Bernard Shaw's five most popular plays--Pygmalion, Mrs Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara and St Joan--this summer. The plays will be part of Methuen Drama's New Mermaids series, and will all be £8.99 paperbacks.

The series editor is American scholar Leonard Connolly.

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