The Crucible
1971 • 484 pages
Ratings134
Average rating3.7
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Ratings134
Average rating3.7
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
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A great play about the madness of the Salem trials and how fare can humanity go on false pretence. A classic of American literature I hadn't read since now and that I truly recommend!
I first read this play in school and only years later actually saw it performed. To really appreciate it, you have to see it and not only read it. A shocking revelation of the results of mass hysteria and selfish lies.
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