The Crucible
By: by Arthur Miller.
Edition: Reprint
Series: Penguin Plays
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780140481389
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Drama; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Drama
Description: The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft-and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can.
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Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: A Note on the Historical Accuracy of This Play; title: Act One (An Overture); title: Act Two; title: Act Three; title: Act Four; title: Echoes Down the Corridor; title: Cast; title: Appendix