[Pt.] I. 'Death of a salesman' : the text --
[Pt.] II. 'Death of a salesman' : criticism and analogues --
[Section 1.] Miller on 'Death of a salesman' --
Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller --
The "salesman" has a birthday / Arthur Miller --
The American theater / Arthur Miller --
Introduction to 'Collected plays' / Arthur Miller --
Morality and the modern drama / Arthur Miller --
[Section 2.] The designer --
Designing a play / Jo Mielziner --
Audience spellbound by prize play of 1949 / Robert Garland --
'Death of a salesman' powerful tragedy / William Hawkins --
Even as you and I / John Mason Brown --
The success dream on the American stage / Harold Clurman --
Old glamour, new gloom / Eleanor Clark --
Poetry without words / T.C. Worsley --
The state of the theatre : the season opens / William Beyer --
[Section 4.] Essays on 'Death of a salesman' --
'Death of a salesman' : first impressions, 1949 / John Gassner --
A salesman is everybody / A. Howard Fuller --
As London sees Willy Loman / Ivor Brown --
Play of dreams / Daniel E. Schneider --
'Death of a salesman' in the original / George Ross --
Arthur Miller : 'Death of a salesman' / Judah Bierman, James Hart, and Stanley Johnson --
'Death of a salesman' : a note on epic and tragedy / George de Schweinitz --
[Section 5.] 'Salesman' in context : general essays on Miller --
Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand --
The realism of Arthur Miller / Raymond Williams --
The creative agony of Arthur Miller / Allan Seager --
Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham --
Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales --
[Section 6.] Analogues --
The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody --
Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --
The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams --
The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.