It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. The production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold, and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted "a powerful play driving performance"). Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. That's basically the summary of the book it's a good book.The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. People who are innocent die because of false accusations. However, the Reverend believes that the people are innocent and tries to convince Danforth,and danforth refuses to believe him. John Proctor feels terrible guilt for his wife's situation and tries to tell the truth, but he is not believed. In addition, the frenzy gets so crazy that who ever someone does not like, they are accused of witchcraft. Abigail wanting Proctor and angered at his rejection lies about his wife saying Goody Proctor has done something to her by using a doll. The situation becomes so bad that the townspeople call for an expert to come in and make sure if all the people who have been arrested are really guilty of engaging in the supernatural. Abigail becomes the center of the town when she begins to state she is seeing people perform bewitching things to her.
Later she is told by John that he actually had a relationship with the girl. Elizabeth (Goody) Proctor sends the girl away. He feels guilty so he tells his wife that he is thinking about the girl inappropriately. John Proctor has an affair with a hired girl named Abigail. "The Crucible" an awesome, it's actually is related to the witch trials in Salem and the consequences that can occur when people go off on a superstitious tangent.
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