Death of Salesmen

"The Death of Salesmen: David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' in Text and Performance" is a critical edition of this great American play--its author's best one to date. This volume includes an introduction to David Mamet's dramatic oeuvre; a chronology of his work in drama and film; a timeline of significant historical and cultural events during the decade of "Glengarry Glen Ross," the 1980s; a summary of the play's plot, productions, and awards; a preface to the text of the play; the text of "Glengarry Glen Ross"; notes to the play; production reviews of this drama on stage and on screen; a bibliography of critical materials on "Glengarry Glen Ross"; and an essay on the American play to which Mamet's has most often been compared: Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."