A View from the Bridge - Couverture souple

Arthur Miller

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843153211 ISBN 13 : 9781843153214

Editeur : Letts Educational, 2004

Synopsis

Providing a thorough analysis of the text, this handy literature guide to A View from the Bridge will help you fully understand the text. Plot and structure, as well as characters and themes, are explored in detail to help you prepare for the English exam.

Prepare for your English exam confidently with this guide to A View from the Bridge. Offering an in-depth exploration of the characters and key themes, this literature guide will provide a thorough analysis of the text to help you achieve the best results.

Included in this book:

• information on how you will be tested in the exam
• tips, guidance and quizzes to reinforce understanding
• key quotations from the text
• help to fully prepare for the GCSE exam paper

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), and Mr. Peter's Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong - and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family. Arthur Miller (1915-2005), American dramatist, was born in New York City. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987. If you enjoyed A View from the Bridge you might like Miller's All My Sons, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Will always stand with the masterpieces of Ibsen, Shakespeare and Sophocles' Nicholas Hytner, director of the Royal National Theatre

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Letts Educational
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843153211
• ISBN 13: 9781843153214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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