A View From the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The two-act version frequently produced today appeared a year later, in 1956. It is... Read More

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The two-act version frequently produced today appeared a year later, in 1956. It is set in 1930s America, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It has striking similarities with Greek tragedy, being linear and having a chorus, or narrator (Alfieri). Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has a fatal flaw (his improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine), and the final, dramatic climax is another feature of this style. See Less