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, 152 pages
Published Aug. 8, 1982
The Crucible
4 stars
(2 reviews)
(2015 Reprint Edition)
Few serious American playwrights have captured the imagination of the theater public all over the world as has Arthur Miller with DEATH OF A SALESMAN and THE CRUCIBLE. Mr. Miller's plays are rooted in a realistically critical view of American life and propelled by the intense personal conviction of a man who cares what he writes about and writes about something that matters. In THE CRUCIBLE he turns for his setting to the grim days of the Salem witch trials, and brings into urgently brilliant focus on an issue that still weighs heavily the progress of American civilization--the problem of guilt by association.
Also contained in:
- Arthur Miller's Collected Plays
- Collected Plays 1944-1961
- Crucible and Related Readings
- 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
Subjects
- fiction classics
- literary criticism
- historical fiction
- witchcraft trials
- trials
- Historical drama
- Trials (Witchcraft)
- Witchcraft
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Drama
- martyrs
- alcoholism
- pressing
- poppets
- baptism
- Ten Commandments
- voodoo dolls
- contempt of court
- Cold War
- Satanism
- communism
- post-World War II society
- slavery in the United States
- King Philip's War
- Puritains
- theocracy
- Native Americans
- Salem witch trials
- Witchcraft in literature
- Trials (Witchcraft) in literature
- Classic Literature
- Fiction
- Literature
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Trials (Witchcraft) -- Drama
- History
- Massachusetts Salem
- Witch hunting
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- American drama (dramatic works by one author)
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Miller, arthur, 1915-2005
- Operas, librettos
- In literature