Which of the following is true about Arthur Miller’s plays?
(A) After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play.
(B) Incident of Vichy deals with Nazi prosecution of the Jews.
(C) The Price anticipates economic crash.
(D) The Creation of the World is not a serio-comic re-writing of the story of Jesus.
(E) The Crucible uses a specific setting to consider the responsibilities of the artist.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is (A) and (B) Only.

Let us analyze the statements about Arthur Miller's plays step-by-step to understand why this option is correct:

1. Statement (A) is true: After the Fall (1964) is a deeply personal and semi-autobiographical play. The protagonist, Quentin, is a liberal New York intellectual whose life and troubled marriages (especially to the character Maggie, who is widely understood to represent Marilyn Monroe) closely mirror Arthur Miller’s own life experiences and relationships.

2. Statement (B) is true: Incident at Vichy (1964) is a one-act play set in a detention room in Vichy France during World War II. It directly focuses on a group of men rounded up by the authorities, dealing with themes of guilt, complicity, and the Nazi prosecution of Jews.

3. Statement (C) is incorrect: The Price (1968) does not anticipate an economic crash. Instead, it examines the long-term psychological and familial aftermath of the Great Depression of 1929 on two estranged brothers.

4. Statement (D) is incorrect: The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) is a comedic and serio-comic retelling of the biblical Book of Genesis (specifically the story of Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel), rather than the story of Jesus.

5. Statement (E) is incorrect: While The Crucible (1953) uses the historical setting of the Salem witch trials, it was written as an allegory for McCarthyism, focusing on mass hysteria, fear, and individual conscience against societal pressure, rather than specifically focusing on the responsibilities of the artist.

Therefore, only statements (A) and (B) are correct, making (A) and (B) Only the most appropriate choice.