The Crucible : a Play in Four Acts

• Auteur : Arthur Miller
• • Editeur : Penguin Books 2015
  • Collection : Modern classics
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-0-14-118255-1
  • Format : 125 p
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : théâtre
  • Résumé :

    Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

• • Index. décimale : 420 (Langue anglaise)
  • Thème de fiction : magie et sorcellerie/justice/manipulation