How Arthur Miller Found His 'A View From the Bridge'

WSJ.com: "When it premiered at Broadway's Coronet Theatre in 1955, Arthur Miller's 'A View From the Bridge' dramatized the family tenement life and the slang of thousands of Brooklyn-Italian longshoremen—dockworkers like the play's tragic hero, Eddie Carbone. The play being revived at the Cort Theater this week, with Scarlett Johansson as Eddie's 17-year-old niece, reaches back to what is now a distant world, where New York longshoremen carrying hooks still unpacked incoming cargoes at hundreds of piers around the port. Eddie's Red Hook neighborhood was then, the play's narrator explains, 'the slum that faces the bay' and 'the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world.'"