Arthur Millers New York: Visions of the City
Publishing Details
Arthur Millers New York: Visions of the City
By (Author) Stephen Marino
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
2nd April 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Physical Properties
240
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.
Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur Miller's New York Stephen Marino offers a rich, panoramic study of NYC across all of Miller's oeuvre, exploring how Miller transformed the defining experiences of his youth and early adulthood formed on the streets and in the neighborhoods of the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn into art.
A crucial component of his creative DNA, NYC figures prominently in Miller's dramatic work: Death of a Salesman, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View From the Bridge, After the Fall, The Price, The American Clock, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Broken Glass, and Mr. Peters Connections all have settings in which the characters interactions with the cityscape significantly determine the events of the plays.
Miller was also a prodigious fiction writer, and New York features in his two longer works of fiction: his only novel, Focus, is set in the borough of Queens and boldly confronts the issue of American anti-Semitism, and the novella, Homely Girl, A Life, creates a sweeping landscape of time and emotion in Manhattan. Many of Millers short stories depict New York settings that are catalysts for the main characters conflicts.
An evocative set of images from Miller's times and from the present period bring the character of New York City into sharp relief and and trace its evolution over a century of change.
Author Bio
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 Millers Plays: The Poetic in the Colloquial and Essential Criticism, Arthur Millers 'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible'. He edited the Methuen Drama Student Editions of Millers A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays. His recent essay collections are Arthur Millers Century, Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Americas Great Playwright and Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century, Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas.
