Originally published: January 22, 1953
Playwright: Arthur Miller
Characters: Reverend Hale, Reverend Parris, Judge Thomas Danforth, and more
Judge: Judge Thomas Danforth
Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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In the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls goes dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba.
PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town's mumbling witchcraft. ABIGAIL: Oh, posh!—We were dancin' in the woods last night ...
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