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The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [ 1 ] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
In her bestselling novel Our Happy Time, she addressed the issue of capital punishment, and in her autobiographical novel Home of Happiness, she depicted the reality of a divorcee's household. In her most recent work, The Crucible, she exposed sexual repression in Korean society, as well as the increasing abuse and violence toward the handicapped.
The Crucible (Korean: 도가니) is a 2009 novel by Gong Ji-Young (공지영) based on an actual case of mass sexual abuse at the Gwangju Inhwa School school for the deaf in South Korea. The title was taken from Arthur Miller 's play of the same name .
In Arthur Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible, a fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials, Abigail Williams is the name of a character whose age in the play is raised a full five or six years, to age 17, and she is motivated by a desire to be in a relationship with John Proctor, a married farmer with whom she had previously had an affair.
Mary Warren is a character in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. True to the historical record, she is a maid for John Proctor, and becomes involved in the Salem witch hunt as one of the accusers, led by Abigail Williams. Mary Warren has a very weak character, giving in to pressure a number of times.
The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Arthur Miller, based on his 1953 play. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor , Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams , Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth , Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor , and Bruce Davison as Reverend Samuel Parris .
The Crucible is a series of three historical fantasy novels written by Australian author Sara Douglass.The series is set around the adventures of English friar and nobleman Thomas Neville – who finds himself caught up between the eternal struggle of the angels of Heaven and the demons of Hell, all against the backdrop of England and Europe in the throes of the profound crisis of the Late ...
John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700) was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.