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When Elia Kazan directed Death of a Salesman in 1949, after such acclaimed stagings as Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire two years earlier, many considered him one of America’s best directors. His name almost guaranteed a thrilling production that united convincing action, appropriate scenery, vivid groupings and striking movement. Describing Death of a Salesman as his greatest achievement, reviews call his direction of it memorable, dynamic, powerful, vigorous and masterful. Harold Clurman cited the production as ‘an example of real theatre: meaning and means unified by fine purpose’ (New Republic, 28 Feb. 1949).
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Dukore, B.F. (1989). Direction. In: Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08599-6_15
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