The Resource The crucible : a play in four acts, Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby
The crucible : a play in four acts, Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby
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The item The crucible : a play in four acts, Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
- "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The crucible : a play in four acts
- Title
- The crucible
- Title remainder
- a play in four acts
- Statement of responsibility
- Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."
- Cataloging source
- IUL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1915-2005
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miller, Arthur
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Penguin classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Salem (Mass.)
- Trials (Witchcraft)
- Trials (Witchcraft)
- Massachusetts
- Label
- The crucible : a play in four acts, Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby
- Control code
- ocm52062117
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xxv, 143 p.
- Isbn
- 9780142437339
- Label
- The crucible : a play in four acts, Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby
- Control code
- ocm52062117
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xxv, 143 p.
- Isbn
- 9780142437339
Library Locations
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