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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman 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. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Time… (mais)
Tem momentos de partir o coração este drama onde se vê uma colisão entre as vendas à la "old-school" e a forma sempre reciclada de balelas que acompanha cada vendedor no mundo dos negócios. Por causa de sua natureza complexa, suas muitas morais, seus flashbacks não lineares e seus personagens exagerados, o famoso Death of a Salesman foi escrito por Arthur Miller mais para ser montado, e menos para ser lido. A peça icônica ganhou vários prêmios, foi apresentada na década de 1940 mais de setecentas vezes, resultando em quatro revivals na Broadway, e continuou a ser traduzida e apresentada em outros países além dos Estados Unidos, onde se originou. A história da família disfuncional de Willy Loman teve um sucesso sem precedentes. Como filmes, teve várias versões e contratempos. Mas Loman é um personagem tão marcante quanto p.ex. os Proctors de The witches of Salem ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
A melody is heard, played upon a flute.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
You don't understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life... He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
Biff : Shouldn’t we do anything?
Linda : Oh, my dear, you should do a lot of things, but there’s nothing to do, so go to sleep.
Charley : Howard fired you?
Willy : That snotnose. Imagine that? I named him. I named him Howard.
Charley : Willy, when’re you gonna realize that them things don’t mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can’t sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.
Willy : I’ve always tried to think otherwise, I guess. I always felt that if a man was impressive, and well liked, that nothing-
Charley : Why must everybody like you? Who liked J. P. Morgan? Was he impressive?...But with his pockets on he was very well liked.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Only the music of the flute is left on the darkening stage as over the house the hard towers of the apartment buildings rise into sharp focus.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman 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. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Time
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