4. Remember him? The author of The Crucible?

5. Born in 1915: died in 2005 Miller is most famous for two plays: Death of a Salesman & The Crucible  Both won five Tony Awards  Death of a Salesman won a Pulitzer Prize  His first success, and the play he is most known for, was Death of a Salesman  The Crucible is his best selling and most often performed play (mainly because it is a mainstay in high school literature courses) He had a colorful public life  Marriage to Marilyn Monroe  He refused to cooperate with the House of Un- American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era He was married three times and had two children

7. In 1984, Dustin Hoffman played Willy (the protagonist):  It won a Tony Award  This version was later made into a film In 1999, Brian Dennehy played Willy  This production won four Tony Awards  This production was filmed and later aired on Showtimeproduction was filmed In 2012, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Willy  Hoffman was nominated for a Tony  This production won two Tony Awards  This was his last play before his death

8. Willy Loman Salesman, husband, father of two Linda Loman Wife, home-maker, mother of two Biff Loman The oldest of the two sons; had been a football stud in high school Harold (‘Happy’) Loman The youngest of the two sons: has grown up in the shadow of Happy

10. 1.Turn to page 29½ in your AP Lit. Survival Guide 2.Over winter break, your job is to: – read Death of a Salesman try annotating as you read to help you stay engaged with the text – analyze the play in your R.J. using this analysis tool: this will take the place of any Reader’s Journal questions many find it easiest to quickly read the play through first (or listen to it: there’s an audio version on the website) but then go back and read it again more closely, this time doing the Script Analysis