Like his plays, he maintained a strong sense of political and social responsibility, serving as the president of PEN International and advocating on behalf of artists everywhere for freedom of expression. Never satisfied with American realism, he experimented widely throughout his career, drawing on aesthetics as wide-ranging as classical Greek drama, Henrik Ibsen's realism, and Bertolt Brecht's symbolism and expressionism.
His best plays seamlessly combine the psychological and the social to produce riveting treatments of the fraught relationship between the individual and society.
Among the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller is recognized today as a formative influence on modern American drama.
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