Described as “the most comical hero in history”. Martha is accused of witchcraft and arrested stories about her haunt the people of Salem. Martha Corey’s, eighty-three-year-old husband, “knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, and still powerful”. Later branded a witch and hanged because she refuses to confess to practising witchcraft, a charge levelled against her by Mrs. She is widely respected by the people of Salem. The wife of Francis Nurse, she is a seventy two-year-old lady, “white-haired” and “leaning upon a stick”. Abigail had worked for him before she was dismissed for making advances to him, which he returned he is “respected and even feared in Salem”, he has come to “regard himself as a kind of fraud”. A no-nonsense person, “powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led”. 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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