Categories: Plays, Playscripts Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights


A View from the Bridge A Play in Two Acts - Penguin Modern Classics
Arthur Miller

New edition

Paperback (25 Mar 2010)


Arthur Millers play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.

Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, its a privilege to take in his wifes cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them, its clear that its not just, as Eddie claims, that hes too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong - and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he cant face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.

This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.


Product details

Format Paperback | 112 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 6mm | 89g
Publication date 25 Mar 2010
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780141189963
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