The Crucible. A Play In Four ActsThe Crucible. A Play In Four Acts 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

The Crucible. A Play In Four Acts

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Arthur Miller - Артур Миллер

Publisher:Penguin

Language:English

Publication Date:2000

Number of pages:144 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:112 g

ISBN:9780141182551