by Arthur Miller · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140181548
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«The Crucible» is Arthur Miller's four-act play, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Set in 1692 in Salem (Massachusetts), it dramatizes the witch trials that devastated the community as an allegory for the communist witch-hunt of McCarthyism in the 1950s. Miller portrays collective hysteria, false accusations and social pressure to criticize intolerance and the abuse of power.
Premiered in 1953, the play won the Tony Award that year. This edition belongs to the Twentieth Century Classics collection.
A classic of twentieth-century American drama, it is commonly read in high schools and literature courses.
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
