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Death of a Salesman

noun

  1. a play (1949) by Arthur Miller.



Death of a Salesman

  1. (1949) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by the American writer Arthur Miller. Willy Loman, a salesman who finds himself regarded as useless in his occupation because of his age, kills himself. A speech made by a friend of Willy's after his suicide is well known and ends with the lines: “Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”

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This fall begins Ms. Rubasingham’s first season, which features 16 productions including such savory enticements as Paul Mescal performing in two plays in repertory, including “Death of a Salesman.”

Nelson recalls the ambitious but morally compromised, or self-deluded, fathers in “Death of a Salesman” and “All My Sons,” wanting the best for themselves and their children but failing to see how deeply damaging their behavior has been.

Jacobs-Jenkins has written a domestic drama in the epic tradition of “Death of a Salesman,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “August: Osage County.”

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There was “Twelve Angry Men,” with Richard Thomas in Washington, D.C., and he was Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” in Waterloo, Canada.

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The star of Normal People and Gladiator II will appear in two classic 20th Century plays - Death of a Salesman and A Whistle in the Dark.

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