- The Crucible
- The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective
when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression
to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force
unto itself. Arthur Miller based his classic 1953 play on the
actual Salem witch trials of 1692, creating what has since become
a durable fixture of school drama courses. It may look like a
historical drama, but Miller also meant the work as a parable
for the misery created by the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings
of the 1950s.
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