PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS – DEATH OF A SALESMAN – CERTAIN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN TWO ACTS AND A REQU

In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman – a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller’s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being “to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.'”

EAN : 9780141182742