The Crucible: A Play In Four Acts
- Primera edición.
- 144 páfinas Fotos en blanco y negro.
- Modern Cassics .
Reissued whit additional photograps in Penguin Classsics 2015
Contents: A Note on the Historical Accuracy of This Play -- 11 Act One (An Overture) -- 13 Act Two -- 51 Act Three -- 77 Act Four -- 107 Echoes Down the Corridor -- 127
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 McCarthyism which gripped America 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.