MOST OF THE RESPONSE TO Arthur Miller's After the Fall focussed upon the autobiographical elements of the work. Miller, in turn, defended it rather well in two articles: "With Respect For Her Agony—But With Love," Life, LXI (February 7, 1964), 66; and "A Forward By the Author," Post (February 1, 1964), 32. All the attention given to the autobiographical elements detracted from the playas Miller rightly observed. This is in one sense the price a writer pays for a well-publicized extra-literary life. And one cannot discount the autobiographical elements which have been amply catalogued by Newsweek, Time, and Life. Yet there are other aspects of this play which need to be examined, aspects which when clarified reveal this play to be a fine humanistic study as well as a masterpiece of theatrical expression.
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