The Crucible
Subtitle: Text and Criticism
By: Arthur Miller ; edited by Gerald Weales
Series: The Viking Critical Library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780140247725
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Drama; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Drama
Description: This Viking Critical Library edition of Arthur Miller’s dramatic recreation of the Salem witch trials contains the complete text of The Crucible as well as extensive critical and contextual material about the play and the playwright, including:

Selections from Miller’s writings on his most frequently performed play
Essays on the historical background of The Crucible, including personal narratives by participants in the trials and records of witchcraft in Salem from the original documents
Reviews of The Crucible, in production by Brooks Atkinson, Walter Kerr, Eric Bentley, and others
Excerpts from Jean-Paul Sartre’s Les Sorcières de Salem, a “spin-off” of Miller’s play, and three analogous works by Twain, Shaw, and Budd Schulberg
Critical essays on the play, on Miller, and on the play in the context of Miller’s oeuvre
An introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers prepared by Malcolm Cowley, and a bibliography 
(back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-484)
Table of contents: title: The Crucible : the text --; title: The Crucible : criticism and analogues : Miller on The Crucible --; title: The Crucible in production : comments and reviews. Arthur Miller and how he went to the devil / Henry Hewes ; The Crucible / Walter Kerr ; At the theatre / Brooks Atkinson ; Arthur Miller's The Crucible in a new edition / B. Atkinson ; Witchcraft and stagecraft / New York Post ; Arthur Miller's new melodrama is not what it seem to be / Joseph T. Shipley ; The innocence of Arthur Miller / Eric Bentley ; The liberal conscience in The Crucible ; Fair play / Harold Hobson ; Counterforce I: the social drama / Herbert Blau ; I want to be hanged like a witch / Marcel Aymé ; Raymond Rouleau among the witches / Jean Selz --; title: The Crucible in retrospect : essays on the play. Salem witchcraft in recent fiction and drama / David Levin ; The Crucible / Penelope Curtis ; Precision and pseudo precision in The Crucible / Stephen Fender --; title: The Crucible in retrospect : essays on the playwright. Arthur Miller and the man who knows / William Wiegand ; Arther Miller's conscience / Richard H. Rovere ; Realism and intelligence / Albert Hunt ; Arthur Miller: man and his image / Gerald Weales ; Arthur Miller: still the innocent / Lee Baxandall --; title: Contexts of The Crucible : historical. A note on witchcraft ; Records of Salem witchcraft ; A brief and true narrative / Deodat Lawson ; More wonders of the invisible world / Robert Calef ; A modest enquiry into the nature of witchcraft / John Hale --; title: Contexts of The Crucible : contemporary. The devils of Loudun / Aldous Huxley ; Who is loyal to America? / Henry Steele Commager ; Communists in the State Department / Joseph R. McCarthy ; Witness / Whittaker Chambers ; The road to Damascus / The Reporter --; title: The Crucible : spin-offs. The Crucible / Bernard Stambler ; On Les Sorcières de Salem in Salem prison / Jean-Paul Sartre --; title: The Crucible : analogues. Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw ; Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; Waterfront / Budd Schulberg.