Arthur Miller Plays 6 Broken Glass; Mr Peters' Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture

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" (<i>Evening Standard</i>). <br><br>Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002 and 2004), it offers the first ever publication of Miller's final play, <i>Finishing the Picture</i>. Inspired by his experience during the filming of <i>The Misfits</i> 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 February 2005.<br><br><i>Broken Glass</i> (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. "It balances private lives with public morality. . . it is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion." (<i>Daily Telegraph</i>). <br><br><i>Mr Peters' Connections</i> (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. <i>Resurrection Blues </i>(2002) is Miller's astonishing black comedy set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics and the predatory nature of a media saturated culture.<br><br>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.