I nominate Death of a Salesman as the play of the century because it's accessible, rather like bear-baiting. Everybody gets it, not just prisoners and intellectuals. I'm stumped for the '90s. What was the best of the 80s? 70s? 60s (Virginia Woolfe), 50s (Salesman), 40s (Godot), 30s (The Children's Hour?) -- because they shaped our aesthetic and moral sensibilities