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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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 ...
Oct 13, 1996 · Arthur Miller shares the story behind his play about the Salem witch trials.
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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 ...
Set in the Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts, Miller's play unfolds as a chilling allegory for the Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1950s. The plot centers ...
Aug 1, 2022 · THE CRUCIBLE depicts the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 in this allegorical account of McCarthyism. Demands of social compliance by the powers ...
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 ...
A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.
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First produced in 1953, at a time when America was in a new epidemic of witch hunting, The Crucible explores the threshold between guilt and mass hysteria.