Tragedy and value: Miller's Death of a Salesman

Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazolla

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In the many years since the performance and publication of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, one central question has haunted literary critics and students and keeps recurring in any discussion of the play: is it or is it not a tragedy? The question of the tragic and genre definition in relation to Death of a Salesman followed the publication of Miller's essay "Tragedy and the Common Man" in The New York Times (February 27, 1949), only two weeks after the opening of the play.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.2.1.51-78

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