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The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts

Author: Arthur Miller
SKU: 9780141182551

Kshs 1,325.00

Arthur Miller’s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – ‘one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history’ – and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the ‘frontier mentality’ of Cold War America.
 

  • Classifications: Plays, playscripts
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 144 pages

ISBN : 9780141182551

Published : 24 Feb 2000

Author : Arthur Miller

Language : English

Main Material : Paperback, Paperback softback

Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd

Size : 198 x 129 x 10 (mm)

Weight : 114g

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