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

by Marino, Stephen A.; Bigsby, Christopher; Roudané, Matthew; Murphy, Brenda; Levine, Peter; Centola, Steven R.; Callow, Heather Cook; Castellitto, George P.; W. Abbotson, Susan C.; Dominik, Jane K.

• ISBN13: 9780761816546
• ISBN10: 0761816542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-10
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Artur Miller: Time Traveller	1	(18)
Christopher Bigsby
Celebrating Salesman	19	(10)
Matthew Roudane
The 1999 Revival of Death of a Salesman: A Critical Commentary	29	(16)
Brenda Murphy
``Attention Must be Paid'': Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the American Century	45	(8)
Peter Levine
``The Condition of Tension'': Unity of Opposites as Dramatic Form and Vision in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman	53	(12)
Steven R. Centola
Masculine and Feminine in Death of a Salesman	65	(14)
Heather Cook Callow
Willy Loman: The Tension Between Marxism and Capitalism	79	(8)
George P. Castellitto
``It's Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too'': The Image of the Borough in Death of a Salesman	87	(12)
Stephen A. Marino
From Loman to Lyman: The Salesman Forty Years On	99	(10)
Susan C. W. Abbotson
A View from Death of a Salesman	109	(24)
Jane K. Dominik
Notes to Preface	133	(2)
Index	135	(6)
Contributors	141