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  2. The Crucible - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Contrast (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before.

  4. The Crucible (1996 film) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Abigail Williams - Wikipedia

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    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. In ...

  6. Thomas Putnam - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Bad Indians - Wikipedia

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    The memoir’s structure is a Native epistemology that tells a narrative with emphasis on relationships and a circulatory format. [3] Following a loosely chronological order, the book begins in 1770 with the Spanish building a string of missions along the California coast. [1]

  8. George Jacobs (Salem witch trials) - Wikipedia

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    Jacobs appears as a minor character in the 1996 film The Crucible, based on Arthur Miller's 1953 play about the Salem witch trials. He was portrayed by William Preston . Archival photograph of George Jacobs' house taken in the later 19th century or early 20th century

  9. Giles Corey - Wikipedia

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    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.