Plays
Subtitle: six
By: Arthur Miller ; introduction by Enoch Brater
Series: Methuen drama world classics; Methuen's world dramatists
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781408106853
Subjects: American drama; Plays
Other titles: Broken glass.; Mr Peters' connections.; Resurrection blues.; Finishing the picture.
Description: Miller Plays: 6 is the final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as 'the greatest American dramatist of our age' (Evening Standard). Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002 and 2004), it is the first ever publication of Miller's final play, Finishing the Picture. Inspired by his experience during the filming of The Misfits with his then wife Marilyn Monroe, the play was completed and produced at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, just months before the playwright's death in Feburary 2005. Broken Glass (1994) is set in Brooklyn in 1938 and intertwines a woman's obsession with the news from Germany that government thugs are smashing Jewish stores, with her strange relationship with her husband. Mr Peter's Connections (1998) is an unforgettable journey through one man's mind at a time of suspended consciousness, where the living and dead intermingle in his memory. Resurrection Blues is Miller's astonishing black comedy set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politicsand the predatory nature of a media-saturated culture. The volume also features a chronology of the writer's work and an introduction by Enoch Brater, professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan.
Table of contents: title: Broken glass; title: Mr Peter's connections; title: Resurrection blues; title: Finishing the picture.