About this title: "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 ...
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Mass Market Paperback. Good-/As Issued No Jacket. Reprint. PLay by author of Death of a Salesman. A couple of stains top and right edge, back endpapers are creases, pages are browning, and inside fron t and rear covers and endpapers are foxed. Over all not a bad lookng copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977-07-28
ISBN-13:9780140481358ISBN:0140481354
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Tanning on page edges. Has some light edge and corner wearCareful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, covers soiled and scuffed, covers and pages age toning, and other light to moderate shopwear. This edition includes author's introduction decribing the origin and development of the play. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Penguin Plays. Audience: General/trade. Arthur Miller play in good condition. read more
Edition: 7th printing
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (091406) Mass Market Paperback is in Very Good condition with shadow crease in spine, orig owner name inside frocov, light overall wear. paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Strange yet simple this story was not in the least amusing. I found it rather disturbing to be told the story of Eddie Carbone in such a manner, so I can only imagine the reaction I would have had if I had gone to the theatre to see it being enacted in front of my eyes. The appalling undertones in the play are the first thing I would like to draw attention to.
Homosexuality is ridiculed, I agree. But more importantly feminity is explicitly laughed at through out, even discouraged. The fact that Catherine is not allowed to wear 'heals' is an important example. It is thought of as a lowly thing for a man to stoop down to the level of a woman. The way the longshoremen laugh at Rodolpho when Eddie talks to them about him, their 'snikering' especially, very clearly sheds light on this matter. The fact that Rodolpho has mastered the arts, which are generally associated with women by his society, make him an object of dishonourable insults, especially at the hands of Eddie.
Another rather strange undertone that I came across was that of disregard following the very first encounter. Rodolpho is not acknowledged in the very beginning. All seem to nod for Eddie but none other than Rodolpho nods when he is introduced.
The idea of mixed affection or rather confused affection is present throughout. Catherine is both flattered by and afraid of the closeness she shares with Eddie. The very idea that Catherine knows what is going on and yet she decides to let it go on, even sometimes unintentionally fuelling the already blazing fire in Eddie's heart, makes one wonder what game is the woman playing. The fact that she says that she meant no harm, shows that she didn't mean it but she does realise it clearly that she caused a lot of it herself. This is clear from Beatrice's words 'We all done it.'
The idea of nonincestuous incest is also very unique. Catherine is not really Eddie's niece. Instead, she is Beatrice's niece. However, Arthur Miller plays ingeniously with the prejudice he knows the audiance will have against such a relationship. He uses it to build a case of this sort against Eddie. It is so amazing that even though one is fully aware that such a relationship, however wrong would not be incestual, still feels the right to blame Eddie of incestuous feelings.
The characterisation is wonderfully achieved and I almost feel like applauding the playwright on the amazing job. However, I found the play a little too distressing without reason in places."
"I hesitate to write much because this play reveals its secrets slowly, becoming more and more disturbing it the scenes go by. It is one of the few major works in the genre of the dysfunctional family, of which the American theater has far, far too many minor works."
"Strangely relevant today - fear of immigrants, homophobia, and the dangers these issues cause for the average man trying to stand up for what he thinks is a noble cause. The ending felt a bit disconnected from the rest of the play though. A quick read."
"Slight cheat here, as I saw the current UK stage production rather than reading it. But hear me out: it is an American drama, written by an American author, set in early 1950s Brooklyn; and yet an audience in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2009, were leaning forward in their seats holding their stomachs and catching their breath at every phrase. The story's subtleties and things that dare to be unspoken, when played by talented actors like Ken Stott, are far clearer than the foggy view of the forbidden island across the bridge. That is the hallmark of a well written play that has stood the test of time."
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