The Crucible
A Play in Four Acts
by Arthur Miller
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Set in the Salem of 1692, Arthur Miller's new play brings to powerful life the problem of guilt by association. IN this instance, the association is, according to the accusers, with the devil. Based on the actual witch trials that became hysterically epidemic in Salem of that time, the drama revolves around Elizabeth Proctor and her husband John, who rather than support the vicious fiction of some exhibitionistic girls and thus save their necks, stand fast with the truth--and send John Proctor to the gallows. Here, from the first improvised fabrications of the adolescents, through the increasing violence of their accusations, to the climactic scene of the trial itself and its grim aftermath, its drama that recalls the great Aristotelian formula for tragedy--catharsis through pity and terror.
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Arthur Miller (1915-), Devil, God, Samuel Parris, Tituba, Abigail Williams, Susanna Walcott, Ann Putnam, Thomas Putnam, Betty Parris, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, John Proctor, Giles Corey, Rebecca Nurse, John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, John Hathorne, Thomas Danforth, Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good, George Jacobs, Bridget Bishop, Martha CoreyShowing 11 featured editions. View all 83 editions?
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The Crucible
2016, Penguin Books
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Les sorcières de Salem: pièce en quatre actes
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The Crucible
1982, Everbind (Penguin Books), Penguin Books
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The Crucible
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The Crucible
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
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The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
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Arthur Miller's Collected Plays
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Collected Plays 1944-1961
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Crucible and Related Readings
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Penguin Arthur Miller
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Portable Arthur Miller
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Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience
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Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience
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