Dee reviewed The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Jarring
5 stars
Miller is somehow always able to capture the worst of humanity in the simplest form.
Paperback, 223 pages
English, German language
Published Jan. 2, 2005 by Philipp Reclam.
The Crucible
A Play in Four Acts RECLAMS UNIVERSAL-BIBLIOTHEK Nr. 9257
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Also contained in:
- Arthur Miller's Collected Plays
- Collected Plays 1944-1961
- Crucible and Related Readings
- Penguin Arthur Miller
- Portable Arthur Miller
- Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience
