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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ISBN
9781474225687
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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