Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller): Text and Criticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670018023 ISBN 13: 9780670018024

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1967

Synopsis

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller): Text and Criticism [paperback] Gerald Weales [May 01, 1967]

About this title

About the Author

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Review

 "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670018023
• ISBN 13: 9780670018024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Gerald Weales