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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
2) The crucible
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Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
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This classic collection--the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available--presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well...
5) The crucible
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2016]
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SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem’s ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite – a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town’s unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and new – from within...
9) The crucible
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MVD Visual
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[2020?]
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"Arthur Miller's The Crucible is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. Written in response to the Congressional investigations into American Communism in the 1950's, it is a semi-fictional dramatic play intended to parallel the Salem witch trials of the late 1600's. In it, the town becomes obsessed with an igniting incident where a group of young girls are caught dancing nude in the forest with a male slave. This leads to accusations...
10) Love at stake
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MGM Home Entertainment
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[2005]
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Young baker Sara Lee is overyjoyed that her childhood sweetheart Miles has returned to be the new assistant at Salem's church. The mayor and the judge have come up with an outrageous scheme to dupe the townfolk out of their land, by accusing innocent people of witchcraft. Just then, a sexy stranger enters town to visit her cousin. What nobody knows is that she actually is a witch, and she's brewing up a pot of magical mischief.
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