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Title: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts With a New Introduction (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0-14-048135-4 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Tragedy
Comment: I have loved A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE since the first time I read it, three years ago. It is a tautly-written, exciting drama in which one can practically see the tragic end coming, "step by step, like a dark figure walking down a hall toward a certain door" (in the words of Alfieri, the lawyer in the play). But as well as the play "reads," it is absolutely ELECTRIFYING when seen on stage -- as I found out just yesterday, when I saw a production of it. The actor who played Eddie Carbone, the protagonist, made the character very sympathetic; as a result, the play's ending was truly tragic. Read A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, but also try to see a production of it, if you possibly can. I will admit, though, that it is not performed that often -- not nearly as often as it deserves to be.
Rating: 2
Summary: Willy Loman This Guy Ain'y
Comment: This play explores the same old turf as "Death of a Salesman", but it does so with much less satisfaction and much less character development. Eddie is no Willy Loman, though, and the play suffers immediately from a lack of a central, driving force like Willy. Parts of the play seem borrowed from Tennessee Williams, and they don't seem to work in this context. There is some business about the romance of the Old World Italy versus the New World of Opportunity on the docks of New York, and it is the only topic that is at all explored well, if still unsatisfactorily. Eddie's dreams are represented in his pretty niece, Catherine; and unlike Willy Loman's uncle, she is still an attainable dream. That makes Eddie's life seem all the more petty, in comparison to Willy's: he longs wearily not after what he could have had, but after what he can never have, as he is already married. The death scene at the end of the play also seems like a forced, tacked on ending, and Alfieri's entire presence is a more or less unsuccessful stage gimmick. There are better plays by Miller, and many better plays by others.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Arthur Miller's greatest plays
Comment: A View From the Bridge is a compelling and exciting drama that delves into such issues as incest, manliness and justice. It's the story of Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman, and his anger towards his niece's affection for an illegal immigrant staying in his house. The complicated relationships between these and many other characters in the play makes A View From the Bridge a truly great piece of theatre. The play has the ingredients of a traditional Greek tragedy, complete with Alfieri, a narrator that fulfils the same purpose as Sophocles's chorus from his plays about Oedipus and Antigone. It's a really good read and unravels like a great page-turner.
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Title: After the Fall : A Play in Two Acts by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481621 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: All My Sons: A Drama in 3 Acts (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Arthur Miller, Christopher W. Bigsby ISBN: 0141185465 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition by Eugene O´Neill, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0300093055 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481346 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee ISBN: 0451158717 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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