Elegy for a Lady

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Elegy for a Lady is a one-act play by Arthur Miller.{{cite web | url = http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/miller-arthur.html | title = Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005) | work = Doolee.com | publisher = Julian Oddy | location = Weymouth, Dorset | date = 2009-02-02 | accessdate = 2009-10-04 }} It was first presented in 1982 by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where it was combined with Some Kind of Love Story under the title 2 by A.M.;{{cite web | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=338 | title = Some Kind of Love Story | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | location = New York City | accessdate = 2009-10-04 }} the combination of these two plays has also been presented as Two-Way Mirror.

Two-Way Mirror was presented by David Thacker at the Young Vic Theatre in 1989, with Helen Mirren and Bob Peck,{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirren – The Helen Mirren Archives » Two Way Mirror |url=https://www.helen-mirren.net/projects/1989twowaymirror/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |language=en-US}} At the Courtyard Theatre, Covent Garden Studio Theatre{{Cite web |date=2017-02-23 |title=Courtyard Theatre |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/courtyard-theatre |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Time Out London |language=en-GB}} in 2006{{Cite news |last=Gardner |first=Lyn |date=2006-03-06 |title=Two Way Mirror |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/mar/06/theatre2 |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} and at Theatre by the Lake in 2017.{{Cite web |date=2017-03-17 |title=Theatre review: Two-Way Mirror at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick |url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/two-way-mirror-theatre-by-the-14278 |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=British Theatre Guide |language=en-GB}}

Cesear's Forum, Cleveland's minimalist theatre company at Playhouse Square, presented the play with a staged version of Sylvia Plath's radio play, Three Women,{{Cite web |title=Three Women by Sylvia Plath |url=https://hellopoetry.com/poem/719/three-women/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Hello Poetry |language=en}} in 2012.{{Cite web |last=Chuck Yarborough |first=The Plain Dealer |date=2012-05-14 |title=Arthur Miller's 'Elegy for a Lady' and Sylvia Plath's 'Three Women' force introspective thinking |url=https://www.cleveland.com/onstage/2012/05/arthur_millers_elegy_for_a_lad.html |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=cleveland |language=en}}{{cite news |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/enigmatic-pair-of-one-acts-at-cesear-s-forum/article_40cda0c2-8f1c-11e1-bc2b-001a4bcf887a.html |title=Enigmatic pair of one-acts at Cesear's Forum |newspaper=Cleveland Jewish News |date=2012-04-25 |access-date=2023-12-28}}

Elegy for a Lady was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1982 as {{ISBN|978-0-8222-0356-8}}.{{cite web | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=366 | title = Elegy for a Lady | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | location = New York City | accessdate = 2009-10-04 }}