After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays) [Paperback]

Arthur Miller (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0140481621 | ISBN-13: 978-0140481624 | Publication Date: December 18, 1980 | Edition: Revised

Previously published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965.

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About the Author

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the most important playwright of the twentieth century whose oeuvre includes novels, screenplays, essays and an autobiography. Besides individual play editions, six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Brenda Murphy is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Conneticut. She has served as President of the American Theatre and Drama Society and published extensively on modern American drama. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Revised edition (December 18, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140481621
• ISBN-13: 978-0140481624
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwrighting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as numerous other awards. He was named the Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A painful play to write and to see, July 23, 2004

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Keith Carlsen "widgeonkeeper" (Asheville, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays) (Paperback)

Arthur Miller, having divorced actress Marilyn Monroe and married photographer Inge Morath, and in the aftermath of Monroe's still-controversial death, wrote this as part catharsis and part explanation of the recent events in his past. Treating Monroe as it does, it inspired a groundswell of revulsion for Miller that after forty years has not fully abated.

Nonetheless, this is a fascinating work that on its own merits has some appeal.

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where do we go from here?, December 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: After the Fall: a play (acting version, as peformed by the Lincoln Center Repertory Company) (Paperback)

Everyone's read Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, myself included... but in my opinion, this play is Miller's most exceptional work! It is presented in a much less formulaic, more postmodern arrangement than his other works. He tackles goodness and sin in a manner uniquely his own, examining what modern man must seek out in life. He offers a hope for humankind which can only be achieved by the acknowledgement that we all exist "after the fall" from innocence and the necessity of each of us to relearn to live and to love in our way.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good to hear you again, November 27, 2006

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Stephanie I. Horvath "ilona8" (Snowy caps of Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Fall (Library Edition Audio CDs) (Audio CD)

Enthralled by Anthony LaPaglia drawl and Amy Brennemann's squeaky blonde (I know, it sounds strange but it's really all there), I loved these CDs. The brilliant text of Arthur Miller is brought to life. Rarely put on, this story of man, searching for himself and for a woman he will not repeat the same mistakes with, is fascinating and sad. It's also disturbing and moving that an author should commit to paper, and thusly to posterity and for everyone to read, his own questions and failings. Because the line is terribly thin. Miller shows at the seams of every scene. It's him fighting with Marylin, it's him redeaming God know what past... It's good. Try it.