Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

by Brenda Murphy and Susan C.W. Abbotson

Book Overview

This collection of social, cultural, and historical documents and popular materials, with linking explanations and commentary, will help the reader to study the play in the context of its time and cultural background. The collected materials are designed to work with the play to highlight inherent conflicts within American society which lie at the heart of Death of a Salesman, and to explore how the play affects and is affected by social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313304025
• ISBN13: 9780313304026
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12