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"Heinemann Plays" offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of Key Stages 3 and 4. The plays are ideal for classroom reading and performance; many have large casts and an equal mix of parts for boys and girls. Each play includes strategies and activities to introduce and use the plays in the classroom. "A View From the Bridge" tells the story of Eddie Carbone, who agrees to shelter his wife's cousins who are seeking refuge in New York as illegal immigrants. Trouble begins when his wife's niece is attracted to Eddie's younger brother. There are 13 parts, ten of which are male and three female. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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Arthur Miller's first success came in 1947 with All My Sons for which he won the New York Drama Critics Circle award. His next play, Death of a Salesman, stunned audiences with its brilliance and was quickly became a classic of the modern theatre. It also sparked heated debates over the true nature of tragedy. Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for Death of a Salesman. He has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the American Theatre, and his plays continue to be produced worldwide. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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  • Paperback: 70 pages
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc (January 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0822212099
  • ISBN-13: 978-0822212096
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of Arthur Miller's greatest plays, July 15, 2001
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The over whelming relationship., May 27, 2000
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The structure of the play is uncomplicatad. The play is in two acts but within the acts there are easily defined divisions which are controlled by Alfieri. Alfieri is essential to the structure of the play. He opens and closes the play. He is Arthur Miller's mouthpiece and he moves the action fluidly. Catherine is a young lady who, it seems, as a result of her mother's death is living with her aunt, Beatrice, and Beatice's husband, Eddie. Eddie and Catherine have developed a close family relationship. The credibility of the relationship throughout the play is inceasingly questionable. Eddie is fatherlike in Catherine's eyes. In the first conversation between them Catherine looks for Eddie's approval that she looks good.She behaves almost in a coquettish manner to Eddie BUT this is not calculated. She sees him as a loving father figure. Eddie's obsessive attention to her physical appearance is realized when he asks her to turn around so he can see in her back. His intensions here are questionable. Is he attracted or is just parental pride? Eddie realises this from the beginning. Perhaps he feels that for the responsility he has taken, to support Catherine, he deserves a reward. The reward he wants(Catherine) is too big, and which if he got would be unnatural and ridiculous. Beatrice notices the relationship but her unwillingness to speak out makes her part of the problem. Eddie uses an emotional approach which in sensitive to Catherine's emotions. He suggests that all he is doing is looking out for her interests. He uses her inexperience to denunciate her arguements. Catherine shows her interests in Rodolpho's physical appearance. Eddie subjugates her. His intensions to show power dominate his actions. Rodolpho speech is lively and descriptive if a little frivolous. Catherine seems to be attracted to his different style which contrasts to Eddie's simple, normal style. Eddie is antagonistic towards Rodolpho because he is jealous of the obvious chemistry between the youngsters. Eddie unsuccessfully does his atmost to vilify Rodolpho. He sees him as a homosexual who is using Catherine to get an American passport. Catherine is attempting to be independent but she can't stand up to Eddie. She seems to be looking for attention again but Eddie's tension and his use of passionate words bring us to question his motives.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Intense Question of the Bonds of Family, April 24, 2005
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Arthur Miller often allows the reader to have difficulty identifying with a character, while empathizing with several characters. This is the case in "A View from a Bridge." When the story ends in tragedy, it is no surprise that the reader is made to question some aspect of American society.

In this play, Eddie inherits the duty of raising his niece since the death of his sister. When cousins who are illegal immigrants come to stay with the family, it is a challenge to Eddie's role as father figure. The character and integrity of Rodolpho the younger immigrant is called in to question as he begins a relationship with Eddie's niece Catherine. Is he only marrying her to obtain American citizenship? Is he too much of a free spirit with his singing and dress-making skills? In Eddie's eyes, he certainly not the proper suiter he expected for Catherine. With a wedding on the horizon, Eddie takes his only real option to prevent the marriage. He calls immigration. The final confrontation between Rodolpho and Eddie ends in tragedy, but the character flaws in both men make it difficult to sympathize with either.

The story raises questions of the bonds of family as well as the changing conditions of immigration into America. The fact that the play makes the reader think about social conditions is a reflecion of the quality of the play. It is from the high standard readers hold an Arthur Miller play to.
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3.0 out of 5 stars THIS REVIEW OF THE Ed O'Neill RECORDING OF VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
What really kills this recording is the Guy Noire style narrator.

Garrison Keillor kills this recording. Read more
Published 12 months ago by C. Scanlon

2.0 out of 5 stars Another dramatic metaphor for McCarthyism
(This review is for A View from the Bridge, which I give 2 stars. I think that All My Sons is Miller's best play, and rate that 5 stars)

During the 1940's, Miller and... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Frank L. Greenagel Jr.

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Arthur Miller Success
Arthur Miller never ceases to impress me. As one of the greatest American playwrights in history, Miller depicts the lives of these characters in a beautiful yet relatable way... Read more
Published 23 months ago by A. Rolecek

5.0 out of 5 stars Eddie's inner torment! Excellent moving drama
Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge is a lengthy, emotionally packed drama that focuses on perplexing longshoreman, 40 year-old Eddie Carbone who has a disturbing inappropriate... Read more
Published on July 31, 2006 by Rizzo

4.0 out of 5 stars A minor Miller is still much better than the masterpiece of many other writers
The great play writer Arthur Miller had the idea for "A View From The Bridge" when he was doing research on a longshoreman who was executed by the mob for attempting to revolt... Read more
Published on January 24, 2006 by Alysson Oliveira

3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly above average at best
Arthur Miller's play of self-delusion and eventual acceptance is slightly above average at best. Perhaps I was just spoiled by The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, but it seemed... Read more
Published on October 2, 2005 by Malachy

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Tragedy
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... Read more
Published on October 20, 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Willy Loman This Guy Ain'y
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. Read more
Published on May 21, 2002 by Matthew Schratz

1.0 out of 5 stars horriable, horriable stuff
Ok this book is utter [crud]. It starts off ok with an introduction suggesting that something interesting will happen but unfortunetly it rapidly goes down hill. Read more
Published on June 2, 2001 by masterpaul

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes An Impact Despite Its Brevity
This is a tightly woven story that packs a punch in just a few pages. In fact, it was short enough that I thought there was no way to resolve the conflicts that left me hanging... Read more
Published on March 7, 2001 by buddyhead

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