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The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
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Aug 10, 2023 · His 1953 play, the Tony Award-winning The Crucible, a dramatization of the Salem witch trials of 1692 and an allegory about McCarthyism, was believed to be one of the reasons why Miller came...
Sep 12, 2024 · Arthur Miller, American playwright who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives. He is best known for Death of a Salesman (1949). His other notable plays included The Crucible. Learn more about Miller’s life and work.
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- American playwright Arthur Miller is known for combining social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives. He is best know...
- American playwright Arthur Miller was born and raised in New York City, where his father owned a successful manufacturing business. The Great Depre...
- American playwright Arthur Miller died on February 10, 2005, in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 89 years old. He died of heart failure.
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955).
Aug 21, 2024 · The Crucible, a four-act play by Arthur Miller, performed and published in 1953. Set in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, The Crucible is an examination of contemporary events in American politics during the era of fear and desire for conformity brought on by Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s sensational.
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Nov 30, 2015 · The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller that uses the Salem Witch Trials as a metaphor for the Red Scare and the persecution of Communists in America. Miller was inspired by his friend Elia Kazan's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his own experience of being blacklisted.
Oct 13, 1996 · Nor is the new screen version the first. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his Marxist phase, wrote a French film adaptation that blamed the tragedy on the rich landowners conspiring to persecute the poor.
