The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

Arthur Miller (author)

Paperback Published on: 24/02/2000

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Powerful

I remember reading this and being absolutely entranced by it. Set in Salem in the late 1600s we are instantly transported to an atmosphere of hysteria. A p... READ MORE

Hannah Mulligan Ward at Woking

Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141182551
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 114g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 9 mm