Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller & Christopher Bigsby

Death of a Salesman

By Arthur Miller & Christopher Bigsby

  • Release Date: 1949-05-18
  • Genre: Theater
Score: 4
4
From 295 Ratings

Description

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
 
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.

"By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

Reviews

  • Excellent play

    5
    By BinaryPork2737
    It's an excellent play, but it's horribly priced
  • It's a great book

    5
    By Broadwaybaby33
    This play is one of Arthur millers greatest works next to crucible it's a true captivating story with a sad ending. Also look excellent on a stage