All My Sons

Play

Writers: Arthur Miller

Context

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons premiered in 1947 at the Coronet Theatre in New York City. Largely considered Miller’s first commercially successful play, All My Sons picks up on the post-war grief and anger of the 1940s, and is in fact based on a true story. The Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Corporation, based in Ohio, was under government contract to produce airplane engine parts during World War II. Because of the high demand and immediate need for these parts, and a bit of financial greed, the corporation shipped out faulty and defective parts for use in war planes. There is no substantial

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