Broken Glass
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000I0RKP0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He continues to be willfully blind to events in Germany and to the anti-semitism of his own boss.. Shortly after reading reports of Kristallnacht and seeing photographs of old Jews beaten and homeless on the streets of Germany, Philip's wife Sylvia becomes partly paralyzed, unable to move her legs. All of Sylvia's longings and fears for the Jews under Hitler are manifest in her state, which her husband can't or won't recognize as anything but hysteria. This is a short play set in New York in the late 1930s. Phillip Gellburg is the only Jew in a high position at a very wasp Wall Street bank
Way more complicated than you think! Arthur Miller needs no praise from me. His reputation is well-deserved. This particular story has many cross-currents, and I was dazzled by Miller's putting them all together.. Obsession and repression Cydni Raven This Arthur Miller play is a fast read. It is an adult play that is full of humor, melodrama, and wisdom cloaked in symbolism.. "Four Stars" according to Ann Eisinger. I enjoyed reading the play but I think that it is not easy to stage or preform.
Broken Glass is a deceptively simple play with a cast of only six characters. It should be a part of every dramatic literature or theater collection.- Jon P. Cobes, Central Wyoming Coll., RivertonCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Broken Glass marks his return to Broadway, projected for this fall? The play is a little bit about being Jewish and a lot about sexual repression and sexual reawakening. However, the characters are fascinating and passionate, and the drama unfolds like a good novel. . From Library Journal Readers will be thrilled to learn that Miller is back after an absence of more than a decade. Librarians should buy this script not simply because the playwright is a legend or because it is likely to become a classic but because it is a sensitive and penetrating look at human frailties. Freud would certainly applaud it since it vindicates his theory that so many illnesses start in the bedro