The Crucible
Subtitle: Drama in Two Acts
By: by Arthur Miller.
Edition: Acting ed.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780822202554
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft) -- Drama; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: 10M, 10W

This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping, historical play and a timely parable of contemporary society.

THE CRUCIBLE focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit her lie, and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, in stead of saving his wife, suddenly finds himself accused of witchcraft, and ultimately condemned with a host of others.
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