The Salesman Has a Birthday: Essays Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

by Stephen A. Marino, Christopher Bigsby (Contribution by), Matthew Roudané (Contribution by), Brenda Murphy (Contribution by), Peter Levine (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761816546
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/10/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Stephen A. Marino is Adjunct Professor in the English Department of Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, New York.

Table 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