After the Fall
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After the Fall

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

After the Fall

About this book

This Student Edition of After the Fall 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 Brenda Murphy 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. After the Fall (1964) is embedded in historical events that were bound up with Arthur Miller's personal life. It is an intensely personal psychological study of its protagonist Quentin and a moral and philosophical commentary on the Holocaust, McCarthyism, and the career and death of Marilyn Monroe.
The play marks the full realisation of Miller's modernist experimentation in trying to create a form that dramatises both human consciousness or subjectivity and its interrelationship with social and familial dynamics. A drama that takes place in the mind and thoughts of its protagonist, where memories are overshadowed by the Holocaust, the play is a moving study of human consciousness, morality and how we should live our lives once we have come to the realisation that we exist 'after the Fall'.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781408123126
eBook ISBN
9781474225694
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Literature
Louise
No.
She
stands
with
dangerous
dignity.
You
don’t
know
me.
Pause.
She
proceeds
now
with
caution.
I
don’t
intend
to
be
ashamed
of
myself
any
more,
I
used
to
think
it
was
normal;
or
even
that
you
don’t
see
me
because
I’m
not
worth
seeing.
But
I
think
now
that
you
don’t
really
see
any
woman.
Except
in
some
ways
your
mother.
You
do
sense
her
feelings;
you
do
know
when
she’s
unhappy
or
anxious,
but
not
me.
Or
any
other
woman.
Elsie
appears,
about
to
drop
her
robe.
Quentin
That’s
not
true,
though.
I
.
.
.
Louise
Elsie’s
noticed
it
too.
Quentin
(
guiltily
snapping
away
from
the
vision
of
Elsie
)
What?
Louise
She’s
amazed
at
you.
Quentin
Why,
what’d
she
say?
Louise
You
don’t
seem
to
.
.
.
register
the
fact
that
a
woman
is
present.
Quentin
Oh.
(
He
is
disarmed,
confused,
and
silent.
)
Louise
And
you
know
how
she
admires
you.
Quentin
nods
seriously.
Suddenly
he
turns
out
the
Listener
and
bursts
into
an
agonized,
ironical
laughter.
He
abruptly
breaks
it
off,
and
returns
to
silence
before
Louise
.
Louise
speaks
with
uncertainty;
it
is
her
first
attempt
at
confrontation.
Louise
Quentin?
He
stands
in
silence.
Quentin?
He
is
silent.
Act
One
37

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Arthur Miller: 1915–2005
  4. Plot
  5. Commentary
  6. Further Reading
  7. AFTER THE FALL
  8. Notes
  9. Questions for Further Study