Title: The Crucible
Description: The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. 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 play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.


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Also contained in:

 - [Arthur Miller's Collected Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66341W)
 - [Collected Plays 1944-1961](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15111386W)
 - [Crucible and Related Readings][1]
 - [Penguin Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22318521W)
 - [Portable Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66337W/The_Portable_Arthur_Miller)
 - [Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24558139W)
 - [Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16060982W)
 - [Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17727371W)

  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18512368W/The_Crucible_and_Related_Readings
Subjects: fiction classics, literary criticism, historical fiction, witchcraft trials, trials, Historical drama, Trials (Witchcraft), Witchcraft, Open Library Staff Picks, Drama, martyrs, alcoholism, pressing, poppets, baptism, Ten Commandments, voodoo dolls, contempt of court, Cold War, Satanism, communism, post-World War II society, slavery in the United States, King Philip's War, Puritains, theocracy, Native Americans, Salem witch trials, Witchcraft in literature, Trials (Witchcraft) in literature, Classic Literature, Fiction, Literature, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Trials (Witchcraft) -- Drama, History, Massachusetts Salem, Witch hunting, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Miller, arthur, 1915-2005, Operas, librettos, In literature, American Historical drama, History and criticism, Plays, Witches, American literature, Procès (Sorcellerie), Théâtre, Histoire, American drama, Witchcraft--drama, Witchcraft--massachusetts--salem--drama, Trials (witchcraft)--drama, History--drama, Ps3525.i5156 c7 1995, 812/.52, Biography, Antiquities, Bible
Places: Andover, England, Salem (Mass.), Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Barbados, United States, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China
People: Arthur Miller (1915-), Devil, God, Samuel Parris, Tituba, Abigail Williams, Susanna Walcott, Ann Putnam, Thomas Putnam, Betty Parris, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, John Proctor, Giles Corey, Rebecca Nurse, John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, John Hathorne, Thomas Danforth, Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good, George Jacobs, Bridget Bishop, Martha Corey
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1692, ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)