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The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
- Arthur Miller
- 1953
The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch Trials written by Arthur Miller. The play debuted on Broadway in January of 1953 and has since become an American classic. Although the play is based on the Salem Witch Trials, it was intended to be an allegory for the Red Scare during the 1940s and 50s. Miller later explained that he saw many ...
Jun 12, 2023 · As the audience realised that they were being invited to see a parallel between the events of 1692 Salem and the Hollywood witch hunt then being played out in contemporary America, in his words...
- Christopher Bigsby
Oct 15, 2022 · By Maëlle Beauget Uhl. Published Oct 15, 2022. In 1952, Arthur Miller published what is probably one of his most famous works, The Crucible, a play taking place in 1692 throughout 1693 in Salem...
Aug 21, 2024 · Set in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, The Crucible is an examination of contemporary events in American politics during the era of fear and desire for conformity brought on by Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s sensational allegations of communist subversion in high places.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 16, 2023 · Arthur Miller's allegorical play, The Crucible, was written in 1956 about the historic witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts. The Crucible shows how fear can inspire hysteria, intolerance, and paranoia, and it mirrored what was happening in America in the 1950s when a different kind of witch hunt was afoot. Arthur Miller's inspiration for The ...
Oct 29, 2021 · To be fair, there are some historical landmarks there, including the village hall where some of the witch trials took place, but the real site of the events in The Crucible is in a town...
