A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by Arthur Miller originally produced as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955. Miller's interest in writing about the world of the New York docks originated with an unproduced screenplay that he developed with Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, entitled The Hook, dealing with corruption on the Brooklyn docks. Miller has been quoted as saying that he heard the basic account that developed into the plot of A View from the Bridge from a longshoreman, who related it to him as a true story. Although the 1955 one-act production was not successful, it was revised in 1956 to become a more traditional prose play in two acts, and it is through this version that audiences are most familiar with the work today. The play was made into a film in 1962 (below), and adapted into an opera in 1999 by the composer William Bolcom, who incorporated material from both versions of the play. The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone, an Italian American longshoreman,... full article at wikipedia