Arthur Miller’s New York

Stephen Marino is the founding editor of the Arthur Miller Journal. He taught at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, USA. He is the author of A Language Study of Arthur Miller’s Plays: The Poetic in the Colloquial and Essential Criticism, Arthur Miller’s 'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible'. He edited the Methuen Drama Student Editions of Miller’s A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays. His recent essay collections are Arthur Miller’s Century, Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright and Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century, Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Brooklyn Plays: Death of a Salesman, A View the Bridge, The American Clock, Broken GlassChapter 2: The Manhattan Works: A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, The Price, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Mr. Peter’s ConnectionsChapter 3: Focus: A Novel about QueensChapter 4: Short Stories of the BoroughsIndex

A fascinating, engaging, and innovative crossover between scholarship and anecdote. Marino presents a convincing, accessible, and intelligent analysis of how Miller’s depictions of New York in his drama and fiction are akin to settings evoked in works by such literary icons as Faulkner and Joyce. He combines a deep understanding of Miller and his works with an encyclopedic understanding of New York and its boroughs throughout the twentieth century—offering a cultural-sociological study of the city as the playwright’s evident familiarity with its history, streets, and vagaries are authoritatively explicated. Illustrating these manifestations throughout a variety of Miller’s works—and forging insightful connections between them—Marino provides a solid case for approaching Miller through this geographical lens to uncover new possibilities in the texts themselves, while learning much about the city itself.