Essays discuss dramatic form, point of view, themes, and the use of tragic myth in Miller's most famous play
Editors Note vii Introduction 1(6) Harold Bloom Death of a Salesman: Tragic Myth in the Modern Theatre 7(12) Esther Merle Jackson Memory and Dramatic Form in Death of a Salesman 19(6) Peter Szondi Point of View in Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman 25(14) Brian Parker The Articulate Victims of Arthur Miller 39(8) Ruby Cohn Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman and the American Dream 47(12) William Heyen The Salesman on the Stage: A Study in the Social Influence of Drama 59(18) Christopher Innes Death of a Salesman as Psychomachia 77(6) D. L. Hoeveler Willy Loman and The Soul of a New Machine: Technology and the Common Man 83(12) Richard T. Brucher Tragic Form and the Possibility of Meaning in Death of a Salesman 95(18) William Aarnes Death of a Salesman: In Memoriam 113(16) C. W. E. Bigsby Chronology 129(2) Contributors 131(2) Bibliography 133(4) Acknowledgments 137(2) Index 139
