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Description
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. With its examination of the themes of sexuality, responsibility, betrayal and vengeance, the play is vintage Miller and a modern classic.
Product details

Published | 30 Apr 2010 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 160 |
ISBN | 9781408108406 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Student Editions |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The uniform structure and consistent approach eveident in these [first] four volumes make them readable and accessible to students and scholars alike and guarantee that these editions will certainly persist as invaluable tools for those who both enjoy Miller as a dramatist and study him as a significant social and American spokesperson.
The Arthur Miller Journal, fall 2010
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The fascination of A View from the Bridge lies in its terrific psycho-dramatics and psycho-dynamics, its cult of the theatre of embarrassment.
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 6.2.09
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A fine play, in which Miller shows us that an emotionally inarticulate longshoreman can be a tragic hero.
Michael Billington, Guardian, 5.2.09
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What lifts this play from being melodrama...is the ancient form of tragedy, the relentless twisting of the rope, the reduction of options, the closing of doors, the receeding of hope until the release of the final catharsis. And Miller's language, which is flexible and sinewy enough to shine through the slackest jaw... This is one of the handful of great American dramas. It is a brilliant and majestic play.
A.A. Gill, Sunday Times, 8.2.09
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This is one of the great plays. The title alone has a strange magic. Its poise, its banality, its suggestiveness.
Lloyd Evans, Spectator, 14.2.09
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In A View from the Bridge, [Miller] created one of the greatest roles in modern theatre, Eddie Carbone, a rough but decent Brooklyn longshoreman who betrays his principles because of the almost incestuous love he feels for his orphaned niece.
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 6.2.09