The Crucible
Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts
By: Arthur Miller.
Edition: Reprint
Series: Penguin modern classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780140083651
Copyright date: 1953
Description: The classic parable of communal hysteria Written as an indictment of the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s, this re-creation of the Salem witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century remains sharply contemporary in its precision and savagery. From a foundation of bigotry and ignorance, Miller shows how the emotions of the small Salem community are stirred into madness. As the play reaches its violent climax, the events it describes become a timeless vision of the evils of mindless persecution.
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Notes: UK/AUST/NZ