CONTENTS:

PART ONE – INTRODUCTION
How to study a play
Readind Death of a Salesman

PART TWO – THE TEXT
Synopsis
Act I
Act II
Requiem
Extended commentaries
     Text 1 – Telling Willy the news
     Text 2 – Playing your hand
     Text 3 – Asking the boss a favour

PART THREE – CRITICAL APPROACHES
Characterisation
     Willy
     Biff and Happy
     Linda
     Ben
     Bernard
     Charley
     Howard Wagner
     The woman
     The two girls
Theatrical techniques
     Realism
     Expressionism
     Staging
     Montage
     Structure
Themes
     Capitalism and the value of life
     An ordinary man
Language and style
Signs and symbols

PART FOUR – CRITICAL HISTORY
Tragedy?
Heroic status
Social drama
Man in society
Politics
Psychoanalysis
The family
Gender

PART FIVE – BACKGROUND
Arthur Miller
     His other works
Historical background
     Capitalism
     The American Dream
     McCarthyism
Literary background
Chronology