Evolving Attitudes To the American Dream: Death of a Salesman in the Turkish Context

As in other countries, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman has become a popular text in the Turkish theater, as well as being taught on many university courses in American Literature. It has received at least twelve productions in Ankara and Istanbul; and has been translated at least twice – the first appearing in 1952 under the title Sat c n n lümü, published by the Ministry of Education and translated by Orhan Burian, a major figure in Turkish translation who was responsible for bringing m...