Paperback, 95 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 1982 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc..
10M, 10W
This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping, historical play and a timely parable of contemporary society.
THE CRUCIBLE focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit her lie, and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, in stead of saving his wife, suddenly finds himself accused of witchcraft, and ultimately condemned with a host of others. (back cover)
Condemnation of the use of the idea of the devil by the state, the abuse of the state apparatus for worldly vengeance, the struggle of cowardice in the face of unreasonable death. Great use of Salem to speak about HUAC.
