The play was written in the English language.

The Crucible was premiered at Martin Beck Theatre, New York City.

The Crucible was premiered on date 22 January 1953.

The major characters of the play are Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, John Hathorne, Mary Warren, Thomas Danforth, Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, Reverend Samuel Parris, Reverend John Hale and Abigail Williams.

The Crucible is written by Arthur Miller.

The Crucible has been considered as a central work at the platform of American Drama. After one-year new production was succeeded and The Crucible has been regarded as a classic. The Crucible won Tony Award for Best Play in the year 1953. The author felt that production is too stylized and cold and it got hostile reviews. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.On, The Crucible was performed in Martin Beck Theatre, starring Madeleine Sherwood, Beatrice Straight and E. is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, 'Political opposition. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's 'witch-hunts' in the United States.

The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial.

Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. '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 of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts.

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