A View from the Bridge

<p><b>Arthur Miller's play <i>A View from the Bridge </i>is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. </b><br><br>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.<br><br>This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.</p>