Table of Contents

CHRONOLOGY COMMENTARY Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts Genre and Themes Play as Performance Production History Academic Debate Behind the Scenes Further Study PLAY TEXT NOTES

Promotional Information

Broken Glass is Arthur Miller's moving and arguably most personal study of marital relations, Jewish identity and anti-Semitism. This Methuen Drama Student Edition features commentary and notes by Ambika Singh (Nirma University, India) and Nupur Tandon (Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India).

About the Author

Ambika Singh (volume editor) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. Her research interests include American Theater, American Studies, Feminist Studies, Race Studies, Age Studies and Communication Studies. Nupur Tandon (volume editor) is Professor at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. Her research interests include fiction in English, modern English theare and feminist literature. Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. Hist most famous work for the stage includes Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Susan C. W. Abbotson (series editor) is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Rhode Island College, USA.

Reviews

Part psychological detective story and part political drama ... [Broken Glass is] far and away the best of Miller's late plays ... [He] gives a riveting portrait of 1930s America in which antisemitism leads to a desperate desire for assimilation and in which consciousness of contemporary European horrors is regarded as debilitatingly eccentric.
*Michael Billington, The Guardian*