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Fifty years after the original production of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's play has as much emotional impact upon and relevance to the audience of twenty-first century America as it did when it was first performed. In this collection of papers, taken from the Fifth International Arthur Miller Conference in Brooklyn Heights, New York, authors focus on the play's position in America's dramatic literary canon. The subjects of the essays range from evaluation of the play in economic terms to critical analysis of specific productions, to a look at the body of Miller's works.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Arthur Miller: Time Traveller Chapter 4 Celebrating Salesman Chapter 5 The 1999 Revival of Death of a Salesman: A Critical Commentary Chapter 6 "Attention Must be Paid:" Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the American Century Chapter 7 "The Condition of Tension:" Unity of Opposites as Dramatic Form and Vision in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Chapter 8 Masculine and Feminine in Death of a Salesman Chapter 9 Willy Loman: The Tension Between Marxism and Capitalism Chapter 10 "It's Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too:" The Image of the Borough in Death of a Salesman Chapter 11 From Loman to Lyman: The Salesman Forty Years On Chapter 12 A View from Death of a Salesman Chapter 13 Notes to Preface Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 Contributors
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By Stephen A. Marino - Contributions by Christopher Bigsby; Matthew Roudané; Brenda Murphy; Peter Levine; Steven R. Centola; Heather Cook Callow; George P. Castellitto; Susan C. W. Abbotson and Jane K. Dominik
