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A wheelchair-bound woman vows to jump out of a window in the prologue of a play by this author, in which a dictator forces Skip L. Cheeseboro to make a TV special about a crucifixion. The psychoanalyst Leduc rallies prisoners in a play by this author set in 1940s France. This author of Resurrection Blues wrote a play in which characters who live in Red Hook learn to “settle for half.” (15[1])Beatrice says her husband can (*) “never (10[1])have” his niece Catherine (10[1])in a play by this author in which Marco kills a longshoreman; (10[1])Alfieri narrates that play centered on Eddie Carbone. Anne Deever gives (10[1])Kate a letter revealing the suicide of a World War II pilot in a play by this author that ends with Joe Keller’s death. For 10 points, name this playwright of A View From the Bridge and All My Sons. ■END■

ANSWER: Arthur Miller [or Arthur Asher Miller]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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Parth JagtapEdinburghBroken Hearts8010
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