A View from the Bridge: by Arthur Miller (Student Editions) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 135024578X ISBN 13: 9781350245785

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2022

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A View from the Bridge is one of Arthur Miller's finest plays - a personal drama in which a longshoreman violates the moral and cultural codes of his community. This Methuen Drama Student Edition features commentary and notes by Julie Vatain-Corfdir.

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Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons, closely followed by Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing includes Focus, a novel; The Misfits, first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and 'Salesman' in Beijing, non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Resurrection Blues. His novella, Plain Girl, was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence, in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.

Susan Abbotson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she mostly teaches drama. She is the author of Student Companion to Arthur Miller (2000) and A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller (2007) and numerous articles on Arthur Miller and other modern and contemporary playwrights. Past President of the Arthur Miller Society, she now manages their website and FaceBook page, and is the Performance Editor for the Arthur Miller Journal. She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (2003), Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama (2005), and Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s (2019). She has published articles on Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, and Paula Vogel in a variety of books and journals.

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Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone. When his wife's cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy, he is honoured to take them into his house. But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them, Eddie grows increasingly suspicious, eventually precipitating his violation of the moral and cultural codes of his community and leading to the play's tragic finale.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 135024578X
• ISBN 13: 9781350245785
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Herausgeber: Vatain-Corfdir Julie
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