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His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1965), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), and The American Clock (1980) . He has also written two novels, Focus (1945) and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by Inge Morath. His most recent works include a memoir, Mr. Peters’ Connections (1999), Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944–2000, and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001) . Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994) . He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.  \nGerald Weales is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Religion in Modern English Drama, American Drama Since World War II, The Play and Its Parts, Tennessee Williams, The Jumping-Off Place, Clifford Odets, and Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s. Mr. Weales is the editor of Edwardian Plays, The Complete Plays of William Wycherley, and The Viking Critical Library edition of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He has written a novel, Tale for the Bluebird, and two books for children. Mr. Weales won the George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism in 1965.  \nBY ARTHUR MILLER  \nDRAMA  \nThe Golden Years  \nThe Man Who Had All the Luck  \nAll My Sons  \nDeath of a Salesman An Enemy of the People (adaptation of the play by Ibsen) The Crucible  \nA View from the Bridge  \nAfter the Fall  \nIncident at Vichy  \nThe Price  \nThe American Clock The Creation of the World and Other Business The Archbishop’s Ceiling  \nThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan  \nBroken Glass  \nMr. Peters’ Connections  \nONE-ACT PLAYS A View from the Bridge, one-act version, with A Memory of Two Mondays Elegy for a Lady (in Two-Way Mirror) Some Kind of Love Story (in Two-Way Mirror) I Can’t Remember Anything (in Danger: Memory!)  \nClara (in Danger: Memory!)  \nThe Last Yankee  \nOTHER WORKS  \nSituation Normal  \nThe Misfits (a cinema novel )  \nFocus (a novel ) I Don’t Need You Anymore (short stories) In the Country (reportage with Inge Morath photographs) Chinese Encounters (reportage with Inge Morath photographs) In Russia (reportage with Inge Morath photographs)  \nSalesman in Beijing (a memoir) Timebends (autobiography ) Homely Girl, A Life (novella)  \nCOLLECTIONS Arthur Miller’s Collected Plays (Volumes I and II) The Portable Arthur Miller The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (Robert Martin, editor)  \nVIKING CRITICAL LIBRARY EDITIONS Death of a Salesman (edited by Gerald Weales) The Crucible (edited by Gerald Weales)  \nTELEVISION WORKS  \nPlaying for Time  \nSCREENPLAYS  \nThe Misfits  \nEverybody Wins  \nThe Crucible  \nDEATH OF A SALESMAN  \nCertain Private Conversations in  \nTwo Acts and a Requiem  \nARTHUR MILLER  \nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY  \np  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \npenguin books  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Putnam Inc. , 375 Hudson Street,  \nNew York, New York 10014, U.S.A.  \nPenguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane,  \nLondon W8 5TZ, England  \nPenguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood,  \nVictoria, Australia  \nPenguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2  \nPenguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182–190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:  \nHarmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1949  \nPublished in a Viking Compass Edition 1958  \nPublished in Penguin Books 1976  \nThis edition with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby published in Penguin Books 1998  \nCop","cbCaieAZhQiGkd3Z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieAZhQiGkd3Z","pdf",558785,142,"English","# Introduction by Christopher Bigsby\n## Act One\n## Act Two\n## Requiem\n## Cast","[{\"question\":\"What historical background does the introduction emphasize for Death of a Salesman?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction highlights how the 1930s Depression seemed to break America’s promises, pointing to the stock market crash of 1929 and the fading of optimistic national confidence.\"},{\"question\":\"How is Death of a Salesman structured in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"The contents list Act One, Act Two, and a Requiem, followed by a Cast section.\"},{\"question\":\"Who wrote the introduction included in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction is by Christopher Bigsby.\"}]","DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Drama - With an Introduction by Christopher Bigsby | PDF",1790375835,219]