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Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller ; text and criticism edited by Gerald Weales.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Viking critical libraryPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 1996.Description: xxii, 426 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0140247734
  • 9780140247732
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Contents:
[Pt.] I. 'Death of a salesman' : the text -- [Pt.] II. 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues -- [Section 1.] Miller of 'Death of a salesman' -- Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller -- The "salesman" has a birthday / Arthur Miller -- The American theater / Arthur Miller -- Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Arthur Miller -- Morality and the modern drama / Arthur Miller -- [Section 2.] The designer -- Designing a play / Jo Mielziner -- [Section 3.] Reviews -- Audience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / Robert Garland -- 'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / William Hawkins -- Even as you and I / John Mason Brown -- The success dream on the American stage / Harold Clurman -- Old glamour, new gloom / Eleanor Clark -- Poetry without words / T.C. Worsley -- The state of the theatre : the season opens / William Beyer -- [Section 4.] Essays on 'Death of a salesman' -- 'Death of a salesman' : first impressions, 1949 / John Gassner -- A salesman is everybody / A. Howard Fuller -- As London sees Willy Loman / Ivor Brown -- Play of dreams / Daniel E. Schneider -- 'Death of a salesman' in the original / George Ross -- Arthur Miller : 'Death of a salesman' / Judah Bierman, James Hart, and Stanley Johnson -- 'Death of a salesman' : a note on epic and tragedy / George de Schweinitz -- "Attention must be paid ..." / Joseph A. Hynes -- [Section 5.] 'Salesman' in context : general essays on Miller -- Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand -- The realism of Arthur Miller / Raymond Williams -- The creative agony of Arthur Miller / Allan Seager -- Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.
Summary: Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream, presented here with enlightening commentary and criticism

Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman , has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.

Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. This Viking Critical Library edition of Death of a Salesman contains the complete text of the play, typescript facsimiles, and extensive critical and contextual material including: Conflicting reviews about its opening night by Robert Garland, Harold Clurman, Eleanor Clark, and others Five articles by Miller on his play, including "Tragedy and the Common Man" and his "Introduction to Collected Plays " Critical essays by John Gassner, Ivor Brown, Joseph A. Hynes, and others General essays on Miller by William Weigand, Allan Seager, and others Analogous works by Eudora Welty, Walter D. Moody, Tennessee Williams, and Irwin Shaw The stage designer's account, presented in selections from Designing for the Theatre by Jo Mielziner An in-depth introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography

Originally published: Viking Press, 1967.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-426).

[Pt.] I. 'Death of a salesman' : the text -- [Pt.] II. 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues -- [Section 1.] Miller of 'Death of a salesman' -- Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller -- The "salesman" has a birthday / Arthur Miller -- The American theater / Arthur Miller -- Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Arthur Miller -- Morality and the modern drama / Arthur Miller -- [Section 2.] The designer -- Designing a play / Jo Mielziner -- [Section 3.] Reviews -- Audience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / Robert Garland -- 'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / William Hawkins -- Even as you and I / John Mason Brown -- The success dream on the American stage / Harold Clurman -- Old glamour, new gloom / Eleanor Clark -- Poetry without words / T.C. Worsley -- The state of the theatre : the season opens / William Beyer -- [Section 4.] Essays on 'Death of a salesman' -- 'Death of a salesman' : first impressions, 1949 / John Gassner -- A salesman is everybody / A. Howard Fuller -- As London sees Willy Loman / Ivor Brown -- Play of dreams / Daniel E. Schneider -- 'Death of a salesman' in the original / George Ross -- Arthur Miller : 'Death of a salesman' / Judah Bierman, James Hart, and Stanley Johnson -- 'Death of a salesman' : a note on epic and tragedy / George de Schweinitz -- "Attention must be paid ..." / Joseph A. Hynes -- [Section 5.] 'Salesman' in context : general essays on Miller -- Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand -- The realism of Arthur Miller / Raymond Williams -- The creative agony of Arthur Miller / Allan Seager -- Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.

Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.

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