The Protagonist person, he is a farmer in his middle thirties. She deposes in the court against Abigail and others, but to no avail. Another of Abigail’s followers, she is “seventeen, a subservient, naive, lonely girl”. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.Ī “fat, sly, merciless girl of eighteen,” she is the Putnams’ servant one of the girls who accept Abigail their leader. A year later, a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 Best Play Tony Award. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold, and the reviews were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted “a powerful play (in a) driving performance”). It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater at Broadway on January 22, 1953. Arthur Miller wrote this play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US Government blacklisted several Communists. Initially called The Chronicles of Sarah Good, The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692-93.
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