The Last Yankee

The Last Yankee (1993) is ‘a fine and moving play ... Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values' (Guardian). This scholarly edition of the play features an extensive commentary and notes and is ideal for students.

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Set in a New England state mental hospital in the early 1990s when Prozac was routinely adminstered to treat depression, The Last Yankee sees Miller exploring aspects of the American Dream through the lives of four characters who question and grapple with definitions of success, health and fulfillment. Described by Miller as 'a comedy about a tragedy' the one act play highlights conflicts between men and women, between the working class and the capitalist businessman and between interior and exterior realities.