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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

ISBN: 9780435232818
Release Date: 22 Apr 1992
Average rating: (read by 67 members)

Categories: English literature: literary criticism , Plays & playwrights

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and a mixure of boy and girl parts. "The Crucible" is a study of the events which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, and a parable for 1950s McCarthyism in the USA.

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	shadesofwords Full Review
	Rated it 29 days ago

Arthur Miller’s critically acclaimed play ‘The Crucibles’ , dramatizes the Salem Witch Trials and gives a glimpse of what may have happened.

The play opens up in the home of Reverend Parris sitting by the bedside of his pale sick daughter Betty...

	elong11 Full Review
	Rated it 30 days ago

Loved it. Miller gives every character so much personality. I love what he did with Abigail Williams. He made her such a complex girl, with power over her community that is, truthfully, a little terrifying. Her infatuation with John Proctor leads her...

	kourt_1223
	Rated it 1 months ago

I like this book. It shows how group mentality can control things.

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