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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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Author Biography

Name: Arthur Miller
Birth Date: October 17, 1915
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: dramatist

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Biography of Arthur Miller
876 words, approx. 2.9 pages
Arthur Miller (born 1915), American playwright, novelist, and film writer, is considered one of the major dramatists of 20th-century American theater. Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. His father ran a small coat-manufacturing...
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Biography of Arthur Miller
19266 words, approx. 64.2 pages
Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an actress. Although he went to grammar school in then fashionable Harlem,...
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Biography of Arthur Miller
15947 words, approx. 53.2 pages
Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an actress. Although he went to grammar school in then fashionable Harlem,...
 


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Death of a Salesman Summary
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In all of twentieth-century American drama, it is Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece Death of a Salesman that has been lauded as the greatest American play. The play deals with both the filial and social realms of American life, exploring and...
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Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller - 1949 Summary
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Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller - 1949 Introduction If but one text were chosen as the embodiment of the failure of an American dream, Death of a Salesman would be it. Arthur Miller's 1949 play is widely considered his masterwork and...
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Death of a Salesman Summary
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Considered America's greatest living playwright, Arthur Miller was born in 1915 and raised in New York City. As a college student during the Great Depression of the 1930s, he grew deeply concerned with the social and...
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Death of a Salesman Information
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Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play by Arthur Miller and is considered a classic of American theater. Viewed by many as a caustic attack on the American Dream of achieving wealth and success without regard for principle, Death of a Salesman made both...


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Today in history - Feb. 10
2/10/2007: 622 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2007. There are 324 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 10, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada ratified it.On...
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Cuomo, Green And Balboni: Balboni? Who's He?
2/20/2005: 1,347 words, approx. 5 pages
Two familiar politicians will spend the better part of this year raising money and rallying support for an election which they hope will revive their careers.Both Andrew Cuomo and Mark Green want to be New York's next State Attorney General. Why? Well, because it's there-the...
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The New York Observer
Memories of Arthur Miller: Take-Out, TV and Olivier
2/20/2005: 1,384 words, approx. 5 pages
Perhaps we all felt we knew Arthur Miller, for to know a man's plays is to be on friendly terms with the man. I wouldn't pretend to have known Miller personally, but we met a number of times and talked by phone, and each time...
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Rock and revolution score big at Tonys
6/11/2007: 754 words, approx. 3 pages
Musical theater rocks, says Duncan Sheik.And the Tonys agreed Sunday, giving "Spring Awakening," a musical about adolescent sexuality, eight awards, including best musical and best score by Sheik and Steven Sater."Steven and I definitely set out to make a new kind of musical," Sheik said...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Terry Otten
14,486 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following essay, Otten addresses the critical debate surrounding the categorization of Death of a Salesman as a tragedy, commenting that “the play completes the tragic pattern of the past becoming the present, and it affirms the tragic dictum that there are inevitable consequences to choices.”
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Critical Essay by Philip C. Kolin and others
13,004 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, part of a special issue devoted to Arthur Miller, Kolin gathers reappraisals and interpretations of Death of a Salesman from several prestigious playwrights—including Edward Albee, Neil Simon, and Lanford Wilson, among others—on the occasion of the play's fiftieth anniversary.
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Critical Essay by Leah Hadomi
8,185 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Hadomi provides a stylistic analysis of Death of a Salesman through the examination of “the ways in which the rhythmic organization of the play is managed in respect of three structural elements in the play: characterization, symbolic clusters, and the plot.”
 
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Death of a Salesman and K-Pax: Diffrerent Shades of One Reality
2,838 words, approx. 10 pages
Compares the Arthur Miller play, Death of a salesman with the film K-pax. Considers each work's perception of reality, and the role of imagination.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The American Dream in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
2,738 words, approx. 9 pages
The American Dream of being successful in the 20th century and how it trapped Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
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Essay Grade: 98%
Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and the Glass Menagerie
2,211 words, approx. 7 pages
Analyzes Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennesee William's The Glass Menagerie. Describes how Willy Loman and Amanda Wingfield both meet the criteria of Arthur Miller's thesis of a tragic hero.
 


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