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Oct 13, 1996 · “Arthur Miller is a problem playwright in both senses of the word,” wrote Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune, who called the play “a step backward into mechanical parable.”
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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 wrote the play after his friend Elia Kazan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named him as a Communist.
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Jun 12, 2023 · Miller wrote The Crucible with a sense of urgency. Two of his central themes – betrayal and guilt – were braided together in a play which reflected his belief (underscored, for him, by the...
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Oct 21, 1996 · It was from a report written by the Reverend Samuel Parris, who was one of the chief instigators of the witch-hunt.
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. [2] Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
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- 1953
Drawing on research on the witch trials he had conducted while an undergraduate, Miller composed The Crucible in the early 1950s. Miller wrote the play during the brief ascendancy of Senator Joseph McCarthy, a demagogue whose vitriolic anti-Communism proved the spark needed to propel the United States into a dramatic and fractious anti ...
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.
