An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

A Play in Four Acts

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An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

A Play in Four Acts

  • 3.55 ·
  • 66 Ratings
  • 442 Want to read
  • 28 Currently reading
  • 109 Have read

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.

Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence".
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Penguin Books
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English
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143

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2019, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Editor's Note p. vii
Introduction p. 1
The Crucible p. 3
Precision and Pseudo Precision in the Crucible p. 19
The Long Shadow of the Law: the Crucible p. 33
Arthur Miller's the Crucible: Background and Sources p. 55
John Proctor's Playing in the Crucible p. 69
The Crucible of History: Arthur Miller's John Proctor p. 77
History, Myth, and Name Magic in Arthur Miller's the Crucible p. 83
History and Other Spectres in Arthur Miller's the Crucible p. 95
The Crucible p. 113
Betrayal and Blessedness: Explorations of Feminine Power in the Crucible, a View from
the Bridge, and After the Fall
p. 123
John Proctor and the Crucible of Individuation in Arthur Miller's the Crucible p. 153
Re(dis)covering the Witches in Arthur Miller's the Crucible: a Feminist Reading p. 165
Arthur Miller's ""Weight of Truth"" in the Crucible p. 177
Chronology p. 187
Contributors p. 193
Bibliography p. 195
Acknowledgments p. 197
Index p. 199

Edition Notes

CAN/USA
Twentieth-Century Classics

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New York, N. Y., USA
Series
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Genre
Drama.
Copyright Date
1995

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.52
Library of Congress
PS3525.I5156 C7 1995

Contributors

Introduction
Christopher Bigsby

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxv, 143 p. ;
Number of pages
143
Dimensions
7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL935194M
Internet Archive
crucibleplayinfo00mill
ISBN 10
0140189645
ISBN 13
9780140189643
LCCN
95236652
OCLC/WorldCat
33256495, 716688644
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0140189645
Google
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Library Thing
22988
Goodreads
17256

Work Description

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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