Title:
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller ; text and criticism edited by Gerald Weales.
Author:
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005, author.
Weales, Gerald Clifford, 1925- editor.
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Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
Call Number:
PS3525 .I5156 D4 1996
Abstract:
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.
Contains the complete text of the play, along with critical and contextual material including articles by Miller on his play, the stage designer's account of the original production, reviews of the play's opening night on Broadway in 1949, critical essays on the play, general essays about Miller, and analogous works.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 5.0 Quiz: 5980.
Reading Counts RC High School 8.5 8.0 Quiz: 02958 Guided reading level: NR.
ISBN:
9780140247732
Series:
The Viking critical library
Viking critical library.
Physical Description:
xxii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Viking Press, 1967.
Contents:
Tragedy and the common man / The "salesman" has a birthday / The American theater / Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Morality and the modern drama / Designing a play / Audience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / 'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / Even as you and I / The success dream on the American stage / Old glamour, new gloom / Poetry without words / The state of the theatre : the season opens / 'Death of a salesman' : first impressions, 1949 / A salesman is everybody / As London sees Willy Loman / Play of dreams / 'Death of a salesman' in the original / Arthur Miller : 'Death of a salesman' / 'Death of a salesman' : a note on epic and tragedy / "Attention must be paid--" / Arthur Miller and the man who knows / The realism of Arthur Miller / The creative agony of Arthur Miller / Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / Arthur Miller : man and his image / The know-it-all salesman / Death of a traveling salesman / The last of my solid gold watch / The eighty-yard run
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