The Crucible
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the tight-knit Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, a wave of hysteria engulfs an entire town as accusations of witchcraft spiral into a terrifying instrument of personal vengeance, political score-settling, and moral collapse. The Crucible chronicles the fate of John Proctor, a proud and flawed farmer who finds himself ensnared in a web of lies ignited by a vengeful young woman, Abigail Williams, whose false testimony sends innocent neighbours to the gallows. Arthur Miller constructs a searing, claustrophobic courtroom drama that builds to an agonising climax, forcing its protagonist — and its audience — to confront the ultimate question: at what price does a man preserve his name and his soul? Written in 1953 as a direct allegorical response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist witch-hunts, the play stands as one of the most enduring works of American dramatic literature, its indictment of mass paranoia, theocratic authoritarianism, and the persecution of the innocent resonating far beyond its historical setting. Miller's taut, precisely crafted dialogue strips each character to their moral core, and the introduction by E.R. Wood in this edition provides valuable scholarly context that illuminates the play's dual life as both period piece and timeless political warning. Decades after its premiere, The Crucible remains an uncomfortably urgent mirror held up to any society that allows fear to triumph over justice — a question it never fully lets the reader escape.
Author: Arthur Miller
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the tight-knit Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, a wave of hysteria engulfs an entire town as accusations of witchcraft spiral into a terrifying instrument of personal vengeance, political score-settling, and moral collapse. The Crucible chronicles the fate of John Proctor, a proud and flawed farmer who finds himself ensnared in a web of lies ignited by a vengeful young woman, Abigail Williams, whose false testimony sends innocent neighbours to the gallows. Arthur Miller constructs a searing, claustrophobic courtroom drama that builds to an agonising climax, forcing its protagonist — and its audience — to confront the ultimate question: at what price does a man preserve his name and his soul? Written in 1953 as a direct allegorical response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist witch-hunts, the play stands as one of the most enduring works of American dramatic literature, its indictment of mass paranoia, theocratic authoritarianism, and the persecution of the innocent resonating far beyond its historical setting. Miller's taut, precisely crafted dialogue strips each character to their moral core, and the introduction by E.R. Wood in this edition provides valuable scholarly context that illuminates the play's dual life as both period piece and timeless political warning. Decades after its premiere, The Crucible remains an uncomfortably urgent mirror held up to any society that allows fear to triumph over justice — a question it never fully lets the reader escape.