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
Book Details
Format
hardcover
ISBN-10
0553206575
ISBN-13
9780553206579
Publication Date
Jan 1980
Item Weight
0.66 pounds
Length
10.00 inch
Width
6.00 inch
Height
1.00 inch
First Sentence
In Salem, Massachusetts, a dozen teen-age girls and a black slave woman are caught dancing in the woods around a bubbling cauldron.
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
