Since Arthur Miller is frequently considered the most European of American playwrights it is hard to understand why we still lack a history of his drama in our continent and hence ignore much more about its presence here than we know. Unfortunately that has given rise to misconceptions which it would be the task of historians to refute and place in correct focus. One such misconception is that his drama was extremely successful in Europe during the 1950s. Some European productions of Miller were not successful at all and many of those that were proved less spectacularly so than is often held.