An edition of Death of a Salesman (1940)

Death of a Salesman

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An edition of Death of a Salesman (1940)

Death of a Salesman

Text and Criticsm

The Viking Critical Library edition

by

  • ★★★★ 4.02 ·
  • 56 Ratings
  • 431 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 88 Have read

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 theatre. 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 review 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 state 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 biography
(back cover)

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
426

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Subjects
flashback, literary fiction, Death of a Salesman, Play, Sales personnel, Open Library Staff Picks, Fathers and sons, American drama, Drama, Selling, Characters, Classic Literature, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Problems, exercises, Study and teaching, Domestic drama, Willy Loman (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Loman, willy (fictitious character), drama, Plays, Father-son relationship, American literature, Death of a salesman (Miller, Arthur), Drama (dramatic works by one author), Loman, willy (fictitious character), English drama, Translations into Welsh, Welsh drama, Translations from English, Willy Loman, Criticism and interpretation
People
Willy Loman (Fictitious character), Arthur Miller (1915-2005), Willy Loman, Linda, Biff, Happy, Bernard, The Woman, Charley, Uncle Ben, Howard Wagner, Jenny Stanley, Miss Forsythe, Letta
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Boston

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Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman
2011, Hodder Education Group, Philip Allan Updates
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Mort d'un commis voyageur
April 10, 2003, Actes Sud
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Death of a Salesman
1998, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticsm
1996, Penguin Books
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Diwedd Dyn Bach
October 1993, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
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Death of a Salesman
1989, Heinemann Educational Books
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Death of a Salesman
1979, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
1976, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman
1976, Penguin Books, Viking Press
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Death of a Salesman
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First Sentence

"A melody is heard, played upon a flute."

Table of Contents

'Death of a salesman' : the text --
'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues --
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 --
The designer --
Designing a play / Jo Mielziner --
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 --
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 --
'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 --
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.

Edition Notes

US/CAN

Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.5/2
Library of Congress
PS3525.I5156 D438 1977, PS3525.I5156 D4 1996, PS3525.I5156

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 426 p. :
Number of pages
426

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7351190M
Internet Archive
deathofsalesman00mill
ISBN 10
0140247734
ISBN 13
9780140247732
LCCN
76051779
OCLC/WorldCat
523035527, 975837413, 856770936, 34085393
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0140247734
Library Thing
4865
Goodreads
12896

Work Description

The blood of Willy Lohman flows in all of us. The story of the salesman who wanted more for his sons than he knew how to get, who harmed them through his well-meaning dreams but atoned with his life, is at least in part the story of all of us. That is why it is one of the most overwhelming successes of the modern American theatre.
--back cover

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