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The Crucible

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The Crucible

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Written by Arthur Miller

Characters Abigail Williams

Reverend John Hale

Reverend Samuel Parris

John Proctor

Elizabeth Proctor

Thomas Danforth

Mary Warren

John Hathorne

Giles Corey

Rebecca Nurse

Date premiered January 22, 1953

Place premiered Martin Beck Theatre, New York City

Original language English

Subject Salem witch trials, McCarthyism

Genre Tragedy

Setting Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.[1] Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt