An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

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An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

Text and Criticism

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This Viking Critical Library edition of Arthur Miller’s dramatic recreation of the Salem witch trials contains the complete text of The Crucible as well as extensive critical and contextual material about the play and the playwright, including:

Selections from Miller’s writings on his most frequently performed play
Essays on the historical background of The Crucible, including personal narratives by participants in the trials and records of witchcraft in Salem from the original documents
Reviews of The Crucible, in production by Brooks Atkinson, Walter Kerr, Eric Bentley, and others
Excerpts from Jean-Paul Sartre’s Les Sorcières de Salem, a “spin-off” of Miller’s play, and three analogous works by Twain, Shaw, and Budd Schulberg
Critical essays on the play, on Miller, and on the play in the context of Miller’s oeuvre
An introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers prepared by Malcolm Cowley, and a bibliography
(back cover)

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Penguin Books
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English
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484

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fiction classics, literary criticism, historical fiction, witchcraft trials, trials, Historical drama, Trials (Witchcraft), Witchcraft, Open Library Staff Picks, Drama, martyrs, alcoholism, pressing, poppets, baptism, Ten Commandments, voodoo dolls, contempt of court, Cold War, Satanism, communism, post-World War II society, slavery in the United States, King Philip's War, Puritains, theocracy, Native Americans, Salem witch trials, Witchcraft in literature, Trials (Witchcraft) in literature, Classic Literature, Fiction, Literature, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Trials (Witchcraft) -- Drama, History, Massachusetts Salem, Witch hunting, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Miller, arthur, 1915-2005, Operas, librettos, In literature, American Historical drama, History and criticism, Plays, Witches, American literature, Procès (Sorcellerie), Théâtre, Histoire, American drama, Witchcraft--drama, Witchcraft--massachusetts--salem--drama, Trials (witchcraft)--drama, History--drama, Ps3525.i5156 c7 1995, 812/.52
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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 Corey
Places
Andover, England, Salem (Mass.), Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Barbados, United States, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China
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Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1692, ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
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The Crucible
2019, Oxford University Press
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The Crucible
2016, Penguin Books
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2010, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2005, Philipp Reclam
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May 21, 2004, Prentice-Hall
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2003, Penguin Books
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2003, Penguin Books
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2003, Penguin Books
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2003, Penguin Books
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2002, Penguin Books
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1996, Penguin Books
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1995, Penguin Books
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1995, Penguin Books
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November 1994, Penguin USA Electronic
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1993?, Heinemann
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August 1989, Cram Cassettes Study Guides
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1987, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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1986, Viking Press
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1986, Penguin Books
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1982, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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1982, Penguin Books
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1981 10, Bantam Books
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The crucible: text and criticism.
1971, Viking Press
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The crucible: text and criticism. Edited by Gerald Weales.
1971, Viking Press
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1971, Viking Press
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1965, Viking Press
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1964, Viking Press
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1953, Viking Press
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April 1, 1953, Viking Adult
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Table of Contents

The Crucible : the text --
The Crucible : criticism and analogues : Miller on The Crucible --
The Crucible in production : comments and reviews. Arthur Miller and how he went to the devil / Henry Hewes ; The Crucible / Walter Kerr ; At the theatre / Brooks Atkinson ; Arthur Miller's The Crucible in a new edition / B. Atkinson ; Witchcraft and stagecraft / New York Post ; Arthur Miller's new melodrama is not what it seem to be / Joseph T. Shipley ; The innocence of Arthur Miller / Eric Bentley ; The liberal conscience in The Crucible ; Fair play / Harold Hobson ; Counterforce I: the social drama / Herbert Blau ; I want to be hanged like a witch / Marcel Aymé ; Raymond Rouleau among the witches / Jean Selz --
The Crucible in retrospect : essays on the play. Salem witchcraft in recent fiction and drama / David Levin ; The Crucible / Penelope Curtis ; Precision and pseudo precision in The Crucible / Stephen Fender --
The Crucible in retrospect : essays on the playwright. Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand ; Arther Miller's conscience / Richard H. Rovere ; Realism and intelligence / Albert Hunt ; Arthur Miller: man and his image / Gerald Weales ; Arthur Miller: still the innocent / Lee Baxandall --
Contexts of The Crucible : historical. A note on witchcraft ; Records of Salem witchcraft ; A brief and true narrative / Deodat Lawson ; More wonders of the invisible world / Robert Calef ; A modest enquiry into the nature of witchcraft / John Hale --
Contexts of The Crucible : contemporary. The devils of Loudun / Aldous Huxley ; Who is loyal to America? / Henry Steele Commager ; Communists in the State Department / Joseph R. McCarthy ; Witness / Whittaker Chambers ; The road to Damascus / The Reporter --
The Crucible : spin-offs. The Crucible / Bernard Stambler ; On Les Sorcières de Salem in Salem prison / Jean-Paul Sartre --
The Crucible : analogues. Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw ; Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; Waterfront / Budd Schulberg.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-484)

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New York, N.Y., USA
Series
The Viking Critical Library
Copyright Date
1996

Contributors

Editor
Gerald Weales

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xx, 484 p. ;
Number of pages
484

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OL16834395M
Internet Archive
crucibletextcrit00mill
ISBN 10
0140247726
ISBN 13
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34486358, 919964457, 1020195483
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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Library Thing
22988
Goodreads
38762

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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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