Don't know if you're on the Steyn ping list or not, but I thought you might enjoy this because of what you posted on the Terry Teachout thread.
On another thread, I put in a vote for my favorite, George S. Kaufman, as a far superior playwright. How I would have loved to watch him -- glasses down on his nose, head shaking disapprovingly -- as he went through a Miller script, scratching through all the pages of unnecessary, overwrought verbiage with a blue pencil and replacing them with three lines of dialogue that said the same thing, only hilariously and concisely.