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Background Activities

Activity 1: Capitalism

• What is Capitalism? – Capitalism.com
• Capitalism – Investopedia
• Capitalism – Is it here to stay?

Activity 2: The American Dream

• What is the American Dream? – Investopedia
• What is the 'American Dream'? – United States Now

Activity 3: Consumerism

• America in the 1920s

Activity 4: The Car

• The Henry Ford Story

Activity 5: The Great Depression

• Great Depression Timeline: 1929–1941
• From Boom to Bust: Timeline of the Great Depression, 1930s

Activity 6: The Great Depression

• The Great Depression – American History

Activity 7: Biographical Research

• Arthur Miller – Biography.com
• Arthur Miller – Britannica.com
• The Arthur Miller Society

Activity 8: Aspects of Tragedy

• What Are the Six Elements of Tragedy According to Aristotle?
• Aristotle – Rhetoric and Poetics

During-reading Activities

Act 1: Section One – Activity 2: Creative Task – Playwright's Methods

• Staging
• Naturalism and Stanislavski

Act 1: Section Four – Activity 2: Character: The Role of Linda as a Wife

• 1940’s Fashion – Housewifes Daily Routine
• Life in the 1940s and 1950s (page no longer working)

Act 1: Section Four – Activity 3: Playwright's Methods

Act 2: Section Six – Activity 3: Listening Task

Act 2: Section Six – Activity 6: Aspects of Tragedy – Recognition

Act 1: Section Six – Activity 8: Storyboard Act 2

• Short Types

The Text as a Whole

Genre – Activity 1: Tragedy

• Tragedy and the Common Man

Genre – Activity 2: The Memory Play

• Memory Play

Context – The American Dream – Activity 1: Summarise a Definition

Context – The Travelling Salesman – Activity 2: Research

• Birth of the American Salesman

Critical Reception – Activity 1: Presentations

• How to Apply Marxist Theory to Literature
• Marxism
• Feminism
• Feminist Criticism (1960s to present), pp. 22-24
• What Is Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism?
• Psychoanalytic Criticism (1930s to present), pp. 5-8
• What is New Historicism?
• New Historicism, Cultural Studies (1980s to present), pp. 18-20

Critical Reception – Activity 3: Reviews Across Time

• Theatre: Attention!
• Death of a Salesman 1966 – User Reviews
• Death of a Salesman 1985 – User Reviews (page no longer working)
• Death of a Salesman review – Miller's masterwork is given urgent new life

Critical Reception – Activity 5: Playwright's View Interviews

• Death of a Salesman at Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller

Critical Reception – Activity 6: Still Relevant today?

• Furloughed workers, Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ is talking to you