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All My Sons is a 1946 tragedy by Arthur Miller, inspired by a true story of a company that sold defective aircraft engines during World War II. The play explores themes of family, morality, and the American Dream, and has been adapted for film and revived several times.
- Arthur Miller
- 1947
All My Sons, a play in three acts, is set in a small town several years after World War Two, and begins with Jim Bayliss, a doctor, and Joe Keller, head of the Keller family, sitting in Keller’s backyard, reading the paper.
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All My Sons, drama in three acts by Arthur Miller, performed and published in 1947. All My Sons was considered Miller’s first significant play. With an underlying theme of guilt and responsibility, the drama centres on Joe Keller, a manufacturer of war materials, whose substandard and defective.
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A list of all the characters in All My Sons. All My Sons characters include: Joe Keller, Kate Keller, Chris Keller, Ann Deever.
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Arthur Miller wrote All My Sons during a flourishing period of American drama, with many playwrights breathing new life into the theatrical models of Greek tragedy and the dramatic realism of Anton Chekhov.