An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

Bantam edition, 60th printing

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An edition of The Crucible (1953)

The Crucible

Bantam edition, 60th printing

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  • ★★★ 3.4 (85 ratings)
  • 582 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading
  • 142 Have read

Few serious American playwrights have captured the imagination of the theater public all over the world as has Arthur Miller with DEATH OF A SALESMAN and THE CRUCIBLE. Mr. Miller's plays are rooted in a realistically critical view of American life and propelled by the intense personal conviction of a man who cares what he writes about and writes about something that matters. In THE CRUCIBLE he turns for his setting to the grim days of the Salem witch trials, and brings into urgently brilliant focus on an issue that still weighs heavily the progress of American civilization--the problem of guilt by association.

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The Crucible
2019, Oxford University Press
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The Crucible
2003, Penguin Books
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Hexenjagd
1998-06, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Paperback in German
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The Crucible
1995, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - printing (14)
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The Crucible
1982, Everbind (Penguin Books), Penguin Books
Library Binding in English and German - printing (62)
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The Crucible
1982, Turtleback (Penguin Books)
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The Crucible
1981 10, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam edition, 60th printing
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
1976, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Crucible
The Crucible
1974, Heinemann Educational Books
Library Binding in English - Reprint
Cover of: The Crucible
The Crucible: a Play in Four Acts
1954-01-01, Bantam Books/The Bantam Library Of World Drama
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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."

Edition Notes

Published in
Toronto, Canada
Copyright Date
1959

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xii, 145p.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7820123M
ISBN 10
0553206575
ISBN 13
9780553206579
LibraryThing
22988
Goodreads
946585

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Work ID
OL66347W

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Work 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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