In the second episode she visits Salem, Massachusetts, to hear about the witch trials which Arthur Miller used as an allegory for McCarthyism in The Crucible hundreds of years later. An array of ...

“The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory ...

“The Crucible” is commonly interpreted as a reenactment based on the historical events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93. “The playwright, Arther Miller, traveled to Salem to do thorough ...

“The Crucible” is a dramatic retelling of the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts in 1692. It was a horrific and, frankly, embarrassing time in our history, one when panic and ...

But to experience the totality of the play, it's necessary to resist a natural impulse: Both "The Crucible" and the Salem Witch Trials have come to mean anything someone wants it to mean including ...

The 1953 play “The Crucible,” created by American playwright Arthur Miller, dramatized the story of the Salem witch trials. The play was intended to be an allegory for anti-Communist ...

In 1957, Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible,” which shone a light on the notorious Salem witch trials, led to renewed legislative efforts in the state to pardon those wrongfully accused of witchcraft ...