A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
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A View from the Bridge

Author: Arthur Miller

Narrator: Harry Hamlin, Ed O'Neill, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2022


Synopsis

Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950’s textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice’s impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally, in hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of the cousins fall in love, Eddie’s affection for his niece turns into obsession.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Charles Cioffi, Harry Hamlin, Jamie Hanes, Mary McDonnell, Peter Morse, Ed O'Neill, Amy Pietz and Don Tieri.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg

The five stars are for A View from the Bridge in the penguin modern classics 1986 edition I have. While putting some space between reading these two plays before starting All My Sons, I found a Bloomsbury edition of All My Sons with added analysis of the play; a chronology, a summary of the plot, an......more

I very much enjoyed the time period and setting of the book and I felt that it was worked in very well to the play. Eddie is seen as the tragic character in the play as he lets his jealousy take the best of him and force him to turn in his wife’s cousins. He does this out of jealousy of his daughter......more