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The Crucible (Penguin Plays) Paperback - 1976
by Miller, Arthur
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- Title The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
- Author Miller, Arthur
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1976-10-28
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140481389-4-18084741
- ISBN 9780140481389 / 0140481389
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 4.98 x 0.3 in (20.22 x 12.65 x 0.76 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects Trials (Witchcraft), Salem (Mass.) - History - Colonial period,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77373758
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.52
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Summary
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraftand then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can.
"A drama of emotional power and impact" New York Post