Week 3: 8/3 (W) - 8/9 (T)

Week 4: 8/10 (W) - 8/16 (T)

Module Instructions

Please review all materials in this module. Most importantly, read the play A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. Complete the corresponding activities found on Blackboard to earn your Exit Ticket and prepare yourself to write your mid-term paper.

First-Year Writing/ Composition Review

Your Paper 1 on Oedipus Rex has already been announced and is due soon. Your experiences in First-Year Writing/ Composition have been varied. To ensure that everyone meets the paper format, organization, and citation expectations for this course, I've included a review unit on FYW/ Composition skills. Before beginning your paper, make sure that your skills are aligned with the expectations of this course. Click HERE to enter our FYW/ Composition Review module.

Our Second Reading:

A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. The two-act version premiered in London on October 11, 1956.

The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. The family is first seen awaiting the arrival from Sicily of Beatrice’s cousins Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine and Rodolpho are attracted to each other, which greatly annoys Eddie. When they decide to get married, Eddie does a terrible thing that leads to tragic circumstances.

A View from the Bridge Text:

Read A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. I've included a PDF copy of that version of the play as well as additional learning materials to help you understand and analyze the play.

Citation

Miller, Arthur. A View from the Bridge : a Play in Two Acts with a New Introduction. Penguin Books, 1977.

Audio Production of A View from the Bridge

L.A. Theatre Works celebrates Arthur Miller's centennial with a special monthly presentation of his plays. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice, and 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 becomes an obsession.

Starring Ed O'Neill, Mary McDonnell, Amy Pietz, and Harry Hamlin. The broadcast includes a piece about Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood and interviews with Mary McDonnell and Miller expert Ethan McSweeney.

Arthur Miller Biography

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist, blacklisted writer, and controversial figure in twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays of the 20th century.

Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, Miller received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Prince of Asturias Award, the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 1999.

American Masters: Arthur Miller Biography

In the period immediately following the end of World War II, American theater was transformed by the work of playwright Arthur Miller.

National Endowment for the Arts- Jefferson Lecture: Arthur Miller

The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is an honorary lecture series established in 1972 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). According to the NEH, the Lecture is "the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."

Arthur Miller interview on his Life and Career (1987)

Mike Wallace sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller to discuss the substance of Miller's autobiography, "Timebends", including his feelings about fame, Death of a Salesman, the McCarthy era, and his rocky marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur Miller Interviews

In these wonderful interviews produced by the BBC, Arthur Miller speaks about his play A View from the Bridge. an incredible source that will lend much clarity to what you read and view in this unit.

Arthur Miller interviewed by the BBC in 1987, discusses the origins and influences of A View from the Bridge.

A View from the Bridge 1 - Introduction

A View from the Bridge 2- Introduction to Original Idea and the Narrator

A View from the Bridge 3 - Immigrants

A View from the Bridge 4- Eddie & the Historical Context

A View from the Bridge 5- The Story of the Play's Development

A View from the Bridge- Movie

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities. Based on Arthur Miller's play. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence, Jean Sorel, Raymond Pellegrin, Morris Carnovsky, Harvey Lembeck, Mickey Knox, Vincent Gardenia, and Frank Campenella.

Read: IMDb: A View from the Bridge (1962)

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Movie Representation A View from the Bridge