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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Heinemann; 1 edition (22 April 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0435232819
  • ISBN-13: 978-0435232818
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and a mixure of boy and girl parts. "The Crucible" is a study of the events which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, and a parable for 1950s McCarthyism in the USA.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
hey!!! 7 July 1998
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Format:Paperback
this play was excellently written by one of the most famouse playwrights of our time. the story itself is fictional but the events serrounding the story are true, the witch trials of 1692 in salem. Just a warning, to have a better undertanding and appreciation of this play, get a general information about the history of the witch trial of 1692 before reading or before viewing the play/movie.
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The witching hour 13 May 2009
Format:Hardcover
Arthur Miller's acclaimed Seventeenth Century dig at the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s is occasionally dour but always fascinating in terms of themes, characters and relationships.
This edition is designed for schools and GCSE students who are preparing to write coursework or be examined on the play text; it therefore has useful notes and study material at the back. If you want a simple paperback copy of the play then buy the 'Twentieth Century Classics' from Amazon instead as it's considerably cheaper.
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By Mary Whipple HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
When John Proctor says these words to his wife Elizabeth at the conclusion of this play, he has faced accusations of being in league with the Devil and is ready to face consequences meted out by the religious tribunal he has faced. Though he has sinned by committing adultery with Abigail Williams, he believes the witchcraft trials which have ultimately consumed him to be the result of human, rather than godly, forces. Playwright Arthur Miller sets the scene for this action in an Overture explaining the theocracy which controlled Salem. Powerful clergymen, some more rigid in their interpretations of Scripture than others, "protected" citizens by enforcing conformity with the church's teachings.

Through detailed character sketches inserted into the structure of the play, Miller broadens the realism, and when a group of hysterical young women makes accusations of witchcraft, resulting ultimately in the deaths of nineteen of their fellow-citizens, Miller has prepared his audience to accept the trials and the behavior of the characters as plausible. His straightforward prose, use of homely details, and simple sentence structure (despite its archaic tone) further add to the realism. When the affair between John Proctor and Abigail Williams, who precipitates and then promotes the hysteria among the young "afflicted" girls, is revealed within the play, the modern reader is given a "hook" with which to identify with characters and situations which might otherwise feel foreign.

Miller's play is a powerful revelation of themes involving mass hysteria, fear of the unknown, and a belief in the essential evil hidden within the hearts of men. As the accused are required to prove their innocence, questions regarding the role of individualism within this society, its intolerance of differences, its justice as defined by the state and by clergymen who differ, and the hysteria which grows from repression all surface within the dramatic action, leading to an intensity of feeling rare in modern theater. When John Proctor is faced with a choice of telling the truth and being sentenced to death or lying and being saved, the ironies of the play are fully revealed.

Written in 1952, slightly before the McCarthy era, Miller's depiction of these trials presages the McCarthy hearings and illustrates his belief that the fear of Communism is the equivalent of fear of the Devil in colonial times. Miller, however, has selected facts which illustrate his point of view and his themes, making no pretense of accuracy regarding the witchcraft trials themselves. In reality, Abigail Williams was eleven, and John Proctor was sixty, quite different from the dramatic circumstances here. Mary Whipple

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The Crucible
I bought this book for my teenage son who is studying The Crucible in English GCSE. Very good.
Published 18 months ago by Mr. W. M. Clayden
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
It has all the questions at the back of the book, which is useful for studying if you are reading the play in school.
Published 19 months ago by Jack
Useful Resource
This is a very useful resource for teachers as it provides both questions and answers on each Act along with a commentary. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2009 by Cathy
School book material
I read The Crucible for GCSE at school, and made sure that I absorbed the plot and characters because I would be writing at essay on it for coursework. Read more
Published on 17 May 2005 by "olly2288"
"Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it.",
When John Proctor says these words to his wife Elizabeth at the conclusion of this play, he has faced accusations of being in league with the Devil and is ready to face... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2005 by Mary Whipple
"Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it."
When John Proctor says these words to his wife Elizabeth at the conclusion of this play, he has faced accusations of being in league with the Devil and is ready to face... Read more
Published on 22 July 2004 by Mary Whipple
Fantastic
i loved this play and have just performed in it !

i took the role of Elizabeth and I enjoyed every

minute of it! Read more

Published on 31 Oct 2000
Exciting 20th century play about the 16th century trials.
This play was very well written and is easy to read, even though it has been written for the stage. Numerous characters are introduced, all with a range of personalities. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2000
ABAGAIL TRYS 2 GET JOHN TO PITCH A TENT AND DO HER.I LIKE IT
THE BOOK WAS GREAT I LIKE THE WAY ABAGAIL WILLIAMS IS ALWAYS TRYING TO SLEEP WITH JOHN PROCTER.
Published on 13 May 1999
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