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[Death of a salesman]

Arthur Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This classic recording from 1951, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play in 1950. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one man's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity--Miller's play is essential listening.

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  • "The story of Willy Loman, a little man, his wife, Linda, and sons caught in a reality that knows no escape."
  • "Arthur Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This classic recording from 1951, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play in 1950. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one man's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity--Miller's play is essential listening."@en
  • "SUMMARY: The story of Willie Loman with the original actor (Lee J. Cobb)."
  • "Performance of Miller's social drama about an ageing travelling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide."
  • "A full-cast production of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions."@en
  • "Willy Loman, a failed salesman, relfects on the meaning of his life."
  • "Willy Loman, a salesman, wonders what happened to his dreams of a rosy future for himself and his family as his career crumbles around him."@en
  • "Presents the complete play with an introduction by the author."@en
  • "A searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their stations in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions."@en
  • "An aging and unsuccessful traveling salesman finally confronts the shattered dreams of this life in an adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play."@en
  • "A drama about the life of an unsuccessful travelling salesman."@en
  • ""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 extremee of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room"--Penguin Books."@en
  • "Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions."@en
  • "A dramatic study of a deluded and defeated traveling salesman, who, after a lifetime on the road, realizes he has failed as a father and husband."@en
  • "Miller discusses the fundamental conflicts in play. Scenes from several productions are included."@en
  • "The story of a little man, his wife and sons caught in a reality that knows no escape."@en
  • "Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, wonders what happened to his dreams of a rosy future for himself and his family as his career crumbles around him."
  • "Arthur Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This classic recording from 1951, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play in 1950. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one man's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity -- Miller's play is essential listening."
  • "Arthur Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This classic recording from 1951, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play in 1950. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one man's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity -- Miller's play is essential listening."@en

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