A View from the Bridge
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Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove.Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York. As one of them embarks on a romance with Catherine, Eddie's envy and delusion plays out with devastating consequences. This edition includes a foreword by Philip Seymour Hoffman and an introduction by Arthur Miller. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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This play, like many from Aurthur Miller is a think piece. You have to really sit with these characters and dissect them because chances are, they've been a part of your life, or someone you know. Eddie is a complicated individual with so much heart, and yet, he has these thoughts that are morally wrong and unable to confront them. It causes trouble the more he pretends he's in the right, eventually to his own detriment. And poor Catherine; an orphan who never had the rules drawn out for her. She had to learn things in a short time, and though innocent, even in her niave state, she knew something wasn't right, and changed it so that she could be her own woman. There's a lot of subtext and a lot of tension throughout the entirety of this play, but it's great. From beginning, middle to end.