Book

The crucible / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

New edition.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2008.

vii, 232 p. ; 25 cm.

Modern critical interpretations

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 Crucible.

Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Historical drama, American -- History and criticism.

Witchcraft in literature.

Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Salem (Mass.) -- In literature.

Bloom, Harold.

Title on jacket: Arthur Miller's The crucible

Includes bibliographical references (p.221-222) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The crucible / Edward Murray -- History and other spectres in Arthur Miller's The Crucible / E. Miller Budick -- Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the Salem Witch Trials: A historian's view / Edmund S. Morgan -- Re(dis)covering the witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A feminist Reading / Wendy Schissel. -- Conscience and community in An Enemy of the people and the crucible / Thomas P. adler --The Crucible in history / Arthur Miller -- The Crucible to a memory of two mondays / Terry Otten --Interrogating The Crucible: Revisiting the biographical, historical and political sources in Arthur Miller's play / Stuart Marlow -- Poetry and politics in the Crucible / Stephen A. Marino -- 'The Crucible' / Christopher Bigsby. .

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