Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)

Synopsis

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. [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 Watch / Tennessee Williams -- The Eighty-yard Run / Irwin Shaw. Arthur Miller ; Text And Criticism Edited By Gerald Weales. Originally Published: Viking Press, 1967. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 422-426).