[This book] 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 shoeshine, [the author] 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...

Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.

"In this second volume, distinguished scholars and drama critics present the best of current thought on the plays of Arthur Miller. In this book, which is divided into two sections, 'Views' and 'Overviews,' the contributors assess the relationship evident among several plays and offer analyses of single works. An international bibliography rounds out this perceptive and compreshensive illumination of Miller's work and career."

Contains essays that explore the issue of suicide in Arthur Miller's 1949 drama "Death of a Salesman," and includes background on the author, as well as contemporary perspectives on suicide.

Dark drama of traveling salesman Willy Loman who struggles with the conflict of family values and society's expectations of success.