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'I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history'.
Taking as the playA basis the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, Arthur Miller demonstrates its contemporary social relevance, drawing the parallel between this event and the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s. In this classic parable of communal hysteria Miller depicts not an indifferent society but one in which positive evil is unleashed. This takes the form of the persecution of minority groups and the interference of the state in the conscience of the individual.
As a savage attack on the ills of 'ideological intensities', The Crucible remains unrivalled. As the small Salem community is stirred into madness and the play reaches the violent climax, the events it describes become a timeless vision of the evils of mindless persecution.
The cover shows 'Hangmank Noose, Old Colfax County Courthouse', New Mexico, 1976. C) William Clift, 1976, courtesy of Joseph Seagram and Sons
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Les sorcières de Salem: pièce en quatre actes
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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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