Offers biographical information on William Faulkner, and provides a thematic and structural analysis of his work, "The Sound and the Fury," including extracts of major critical essays
Offers a brief profile of Dante, provides an overview of the themes, structure, and characters of the "Inferno," and includes selections from critical essays
In the spring of 1948, Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of "Death of a Salesman" - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.'