Death of a Salesman

<b>The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream</b> <p/>Ever since it was first performed in 1949 <i>Death of a Salesman</i> 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. <p/>By common consent this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater. --Brooks Atkinson <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>So simple central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. --<i>Time</i>