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The crucible: a play in four acts

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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 Crucibleis also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

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Penguin
0141904194 / 9780141904191
eBook (EPUB)
812.52
24/02/2000
England
English
111 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: New York: Viking, 1953; London: Cresset, 1956.