The CrucibleArthur Miller
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
3.486 ratings on Open Library151 pagesFirst published 1953Standalone
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.
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