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This Student Edition of Broken Glass is perfect for students of
literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to
Miller’s play. It features an extensive introduction by Alan Ackerman
which includes a chronology of Miller’s life and times, a summary of the
plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and
production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for
further study and detailed notes on words and phrases from the text,
this is the definitive edition of the play. Set in Brooklyn in 1938,
Broken Glass is Miller’s moving study of marital relations, Jewish
identity and anti-Semitism that won the Olivier Award for Best New Play
in 1994. Sylvia Gellburg is stricken by a mysterious paralysis in her
legs for which the doctor can find no cause. He soon realises that she
is obsessed by the devastating news from Germany, where government thugs
have begun smashing Jewish stores. But through a series of meetings
with her husband Phillip he learns that this experience is intermeshed
with their strange relationship and the deceptions and hostilities that
lie at the heart of their marriage. Professor Alan Acklerman’s expertly
edited edition of the play provides a wide-ranging study of
Kristallnacht, and of American and European responses to the Holocaust,
the situation of Jews in America from the 1930s to the 1990s, the Great
Depression and other Holocaust and Jewish drama.
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