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About the Author: Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are still studied and performed worldwide. Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence against others to the House Un-American Activities Committee, being the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among other awards, and for marrying Marilyn Monroe. At the time of his death, Miller was considered one of the greatest American playwrights.


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Paperback, Published in Jan 1996 by Penguin Books

ISBN10: 0140247734 | ISBN13: 9780140247732

Page count: 448

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream, presented here with enlightening commentary and criticism

Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.

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 theater. 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 reviews 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 stage 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 bibliography 

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