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Death of a salesman, certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem, by Arthur Miller

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Death of a salesman, certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem, by Arthur Miller

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

dramas

Main title

Death of a salesman

Oclc number

3143230

Responsibility statement

by Arthur Miller

Series statement

Penguin plays

Sub title

certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem

Summary

The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity-and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room

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