A View from the Bridge
View from the Bridge, A Author: Arthur Miller
First Performance: 1955; New York
Published: 1955; rev. 1957
Genre: Trag. in 2 acts, verse and prose
Setting: Street and house front of tenement building, Brooklyn, 1950s.
Cast: 10m, 3f, extras
Eddie Carbone, a 40-year-old longshoreman, lives with his wife Beatrice and his pretty orphaned niece Catherine in an apartment overlooked by Brooklyn Bridge. As Catherine grows up and takes a job, Eddie becomes unnaturally edgy about her. Two young cousins of Beatrice come from Italy as illegal immigrants (‘submarines’) to live in the apartment: Marco is serious-minded, intent on finding a job so that he can send regular remittances to his family in Sicily; Rodolpho is good-looking and light-headed. Catherine is attracted to Rodolpho, and Eddie, jealously implying that...
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