Crucible: A Play in Four Acts: Penguin Modern Classics (Revised)

Arthur Miller

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Crucible: A Play in Four Acts: Penguin Modern Classics (Revised)

Crucible: A Play in Four Acts: Penguin Modern Classics (Revised)

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.

A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

About the Author

Arthur Miller (1915 2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include "All My Sons" (1947), "Death of a Salesman" (1949), " The Crucible" (1953), "A View from the Bridge" and "A Memory of Two Mondays" (1955), "After the Fall" (1963), "Incident at Vichy "(1964), " The Price "(1968), "The Creation of the World and Other Business" (1972) and "The American Clock" (1980). He also wrote two novels, "Focus "(1945), and "The Misfits," which was filmed in 1960, and the text for "In Russia" (1969), "Chinese Encounters" (1979), and "In the Country" (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, "Timebends" (1987); the plays "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan" (1991), "The Last Yankee" (1993), "Broken Glass" (1994), and "Mr. Peter's Connections" (1999); "Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944 2000"; and "On Politics and the Art of Acting" (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003."

Publishing Information

Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub date: 2000-02-24
Length: 144 pages

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