مرگ فروشنده مشهورترین و به اعتبار بسیاری از منتقدان، شاهکار نمایش نامه نویسی آرتور میللر است که بارها در آمریکا و کشورهای دیگر به روی صحنه آمده و از آن (دست کم تا آنجا که من به یاد دارم) سه فیلم سینمایی مشهور هم ساخته شده که آخرینشان با بازی "داستین هوفمن" در نقش "ویلی نومان"، بهترینشان بود. جالب آن که "هوفمن" چند سال پیش از آن، در اقتباس دیگری از این نمایش نامه، نقش پسر "ویلی نومان" را بازی می کرد. این نمایش نامه به اسامی مختلف و توسط مترجمان مختلف به فارسی برگردانده شده و چند کارگردان هم آن را روی صحنه برده اند؛ "مرگ فروشنده" با ترجمه ی عطاء الله نوریان در 1351، و "مرگ پیله ور" با ترجمه ی علی اصغر بهرام بیگی در 1363 منتشر شده اند.

Most of Arthur miller’s plays such as “A View from the Bridge”, “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman” etc. are categorized as modern tragedies; the struggles of the everyday man; social American tragedies, focusing on the dark side of the American dream. “All my Sons” is a classic play, about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of a World War II corruption case, when two brothers come together to dispose of their parents' estate, their divergent attitudes and dispositions become increasingly accentuated: “Price”. Exploring the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate: “A View from the Bridge”. Revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association, but placed the outrage of McCarthyism in historical perspective: “The crucible”. An anguished consideration of mortality and the gulf between men and women: “Elegy for a lady”. Re-creating Dante's hell inside the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable: “Incident at Vichy”. A darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question; What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today: “Resurrection blues”. A casual, warm-spirited and innocuous musical chalk talk whose future is likely to reside with amateur church and synagogue theater groups: “Up from Paradise”. So simple in style and so inevitable in theme, where Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre: “Death of Salesman”. A superb drama though Miller says; "…a love story between a man and his son, and... between both of them and America"!
Though Miller’s works have always some social-political back ground in one or another way, but plays such as; “The archbishop’s ceiling” are referring directly to political issues (political situation in East Block in 1950’s and 60’s.) He has also plays which are less interesting; “A Memory of Two Mondays”, Danger: Memory; “I can’t remember anything”, “Clara”, “After the fall”, “Some kind of love story”, “The Last Yankee”, “Broken Glass”, “The Creation of the World and Other Business”, “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”, “American Clock”, etc.