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Book

Death of a salesman : text and criticism

Call Number

  • 812 M647.1W (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Books, 1996.

Physical Description

xxii, 426 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Notes

Originally published: Viking Press, 1967.

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.

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