| Description |
xxii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking critical library |
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Viking critical library.
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| Note |
Originally published: Viking Press, 1967. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-426). |
| Contents |
[Pt.] I. 'Death of a salesman' : the text -- [Pt.] II. 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues -- [Section 1.] Miller on '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 watches / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 5.0 5980. |
| Subject |
Loman, Willy (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
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Sales personnel -- Drama.
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Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Death of a salesman.
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Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 -- Characters -- Willy Loman.
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| Added Author |
Weales, Gerald, 1925-2013. Editor.
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| ISBN |
0140247734 |
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9780140247732 |
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