Death of a Salesman
Subtitle: Text and Criticsm
Contributors: Gerald Weales (Editor)
Edition: The Viking Critical Library edition
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780140247732
Copyright date: 1977
First sentence: A melody is heard, played upon a flute.
Description: 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)
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: 'Death of a salesman' : the text --; title: 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues --; title: Miller of 'Death of a salesman' --; title: Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller --; title: The "salesman" has a birthday / Arthur Miller --; title: The American theater / Arthur Miller --; title: Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Arthur Miller --; title: Morality and the modern drama / Arthur Miller --; title: The designer --; title: Designing a play / Jo Mielziner --; title: Reviews --; title: Audience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / Robert Garland --; title: 'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / William Hawkins --; title: Even as you and I / John Mason Brown --; title: The success dream on the American stage / Harold Clurman --; title: Old glamour, new gloom / Eleanor Clark --; title: Poetry without words / T.C. Worsley --; title: The state of the theatre : the season opens / William Beyer --; title: Essays on 'Death of a salesman' --; title: 'Death of a salesman' : first impressions, 1949 / John Gassner --; title: A salesman is everybody / A. Howard Fuller --; title: As London sees Willy Loman / Ivor Brown --; title: Play of dreams / Daniel E. Schneider --; title: 'Death of a salesman' in the original / George Ross --; title: Arthur Miller : 'Death of a salesman' / Judah Bierman, James Hart, and Stanley Johnson --; title: 'Death of a salesman' : a note on epic and tragedy / George de Schweinitz --; title: "Attention must be paid ..." / Joseph A. Hynes --; title: 'Salesman' in context : general essays on Miller --; title: Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand --; title: The realism of Arthur Miller / Raymond Williams --; title: The creative agony of Arthur Miller / Allan Seager --; title: Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham --; title: Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales --; title: Analogues --; title: The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody --; title: Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --; title: The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams --; title: The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.