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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.
Giles Corey (bapt. Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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, Karron Graves as Mary Warren, and Bruce Davison as Reverend Samuel Parris.
George Jacobs accused by his granddaughter - a reconstruction of his trial by Thompkins. H. Matteson. The painting Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692 was created by Tompkins H. Matteson in 1855, and is based on the accounts of George Jacobs' granddaughter.
The Crucible (1952), a play by Arthur Miller (1915–2005), Arguably the most famous cultural depictions of the Salem Witch, uses the trial events to reflect on the actions of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities and Senator Joe McCarthy. [15] Tituba of Salem Village (1956), a children's book by Ann Petry. [16]
Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
The Crucible, opera in 4 acts (1961); libretto by Bernard Stambler after the play by Arthur Miller; recipient of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music The Lady from Colorado (1964); revised in 1993 as Lady Kate ; libretto by Bernard Stambler after the novel by Homer Croy
In Arthur Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible, Thomas Putnam is married to Ann Putnam, and together have a daughter, Ruth Putnam, who is afflicted with a grave illness, similar to that of Betty Parris. They both have lost seven children in childbirth and point to witchcraft as the cause of it. Putnam appears in Act 1 and is apparent during Act 3.