All My Sons

play by Miller

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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 airplane parts cause the death of his own son and other fliers during World War II.

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