"(Scott's wife at the time) as Elizabeth Proctor, Melvyn Douglas as Thomas Danforth, and Tuesday Weld as Abigail Williams. A production by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End in 2006 was recorded for the Victoria and Albert Museum's National Video Archive of Performance. Notes Sources The Crucible 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"
"of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692, and supported the work of the court. However, on November 14, 1692, 17-year-old Mary Herrick accused his second wife, Sarah Noyes Hale, and the ghost of executed Mary Eastey of afflicting her, but his wife was never formally charged or arrested. A later commentator on the trials, Charles Upham suggests that this accusation was one that helped turn public opinion to end the prosecutions, and spurred Hale's willingness to reconsider his support of the trials. In Arthur Miller's 1953 play ""The Crucible"", a fictional portrayal of Hale appears in Act I"
"Sheriff's office was moved from Salem to Middleton in 1991. Giles Corey is the subject of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow play entitled ""Giles Corey of the Salem Farms"" and an 1893 play, ""Giles Corey, Yeoman"", by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Corey is a character in Arthur Miller's play ""The Crucible"" (1953), in which he is portrayed as a hot-tempered but honorable man, giving evidence critical to the witch trials. His wife Martha (executed on September 22, 1692) was one of the 19 people hanged during the hysteria on Proctor's Ledge. In ""The Crucible"", Giles feels guilty about the accusation of"
"Warren’s confession comes to nothing. Williams accuses Warren of witchcraft, which leads to Warren to renounce her confession and accuse Proctor of forcing her to make it. Proctor is later hanged as he renounces his confession to save his heart and soul. In the 1957 and 1996 film adaptations of Miller's play, she was depicted by Pascale Petit and Karron Graves, respectively. Mary Warren Mary Ann Warren was the oldest accuser during the 1692 Salem witch trials, being 18 years old, when the trials began. She was a servant for John and Elizabeth Proctor. Renouncing her claims after being threatened"
"have been caused by ergotism, the ingestion of fungus-infected rye. This explanation has not been widely accepted. In Arthur Miller's 1953 play, ""The Crucible"", a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials, Abigail Williams is portrayed as the primary instigator of the accusations, motivated largely by her desire to be in a relationship with John Proctor, a married farmer with whom she had previously had an affair. In real life, there was no evidence of John Proctor and Abigail Williams ever meeting before the trials. Her age in the play had been raised to 17. She was"
"Fair Em Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written c. 1590. It was bound together with ""Mucedorus"" and ""The Merry Devil of Edmonton"" in a volume labelled ""Shakespeare. Vol. I"" in the library of Charles II Though scholarly opinion generally does not accept the attribution to William Shakespeare, there are a few who believe they see Shakespeare's hand in this play. ""Fair Em"" was published in quarto twice before the closing of the theatres in 1642: Edward Phillips, in his ""Theatrum Poetarum"" (1675), states that ""Fair Em"" was written by Robert"
"is not a character in the play, and Miller portrays Danforth as an honest but domineering and selfish judge, under whose authority many are imprisoned and sentenced to hang. When John Proctor, an accused, defies his authority at the end of the play by refusing to lie and sign a public confession saying that he is a witch and accusing others, he is mercilessly sentenced to hang. In an introduction to the play, Miller wrote that he had combined several persons and made other changes to the historical characters for dramatic purposes. Miller also wrote the screenplay for the 1996"
"Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ""All My Sons"" (1947), ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949), ""The Crucible"" (1953) and ""A View from the Bridge"" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on ""The Misfits"" (1961). The drama ""Death of a Salesman"" has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" and Tennessee Williams's"
"of Miller's play, she was depicted (on-screen) by Jeanne Fusier-Gir and Mary Pat Gleason, respectively. Martha Corey Martha Corey (1619 or 1620 – September 22, 1692) was accused and convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, on September 9, 1692, and was hanged on September 22, 1692. Her second husband, Giles Corey, was also accused. In 1677 Martha Corey had an illegitimate, mixed race son named Benoni. Benoni was thought to be mulatto and represented living proof of Corey's checkered past. Benoni lived with Corey and her husband Giles, so town members were aware of this situation. Corey married"
"time of the Salem witch trials, but did not sit on the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Despite this, he is inaccurately depicted in Arthur Miller's play ""The Crucible"" and its movie adaptations as doing so. He is presented as a harsh and domineering governor, apparently conflated with William Stoughton, who does not appear in Miller's play (although he and Samuel Sewall are mentioned briefly by Danforth in Act 3, Scene 1). In reality, Danforth is recorded as being critical of the conduct of the trials, and played a role in bringing them to an end. Thomas Danforth was born"
"witchcraft and began to accuse various people, including the Proctors, of witchcraft. Mary Warren is a character in the play ""The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller. True to the historical record, she is a maid for John Proctor, and becomes involved in the Salem witch hunt as one of the accusers, led by Abigail Williams. Mary Warren has a very weak character, giving in to pressure a number of times. Proctor manages to convince her to reveal that she and the other accusers have been fabricating their stories and ""supernatural experiences"" that have resulted in the arrest of many innocents. However,"
"witchcraft, as well). He died on 14 May 1705, in Topsfield. Sarah was exonerated by the Massachusetts General Court in 1710, along with many other condemned. Her son Ephraim, responding that ""the los of so dere a frind... cannot be mede up"" (sic), was awarded 14 pounds as restitution. The husband of one of Sarah's descendants, State Representative Paul Tirone, was instrumental in clearing the last five victims by an act of Legislature on October 31, 2001 (Halloween). The Salem Witch Trials Memorial includes a bench inscribed with the names of all those executed, including Sarah Wildes. Arthur Miller, who"
"Cry Innocent Cry Innocent is a theatrical performance based on an episode of the Salem witch trials. The show, which has been running continuously since the mid-1990s, emphasizes interactive theater. The stage is set in 1692. Bridget Bishop has been accused of witchcraft and the audience sits on the Puritan jury. They hear the accounts, cross-examine the witnesses and decide the verdict. The actors respond in character to all comments and questions, revealing additional information about the early Colonial era of American history. The show takes place at Salem Old Town Hall, but the first scene of the performance, the"
"describes her in most unfavourable terms. A local road is named after Dyer, where her homestead was said to have been. Many local families have their own version of the Moll Dyer affair, and her name is spoken with care in the rural southern counties. Accusations of witchcraft and wizardry led to the prosecution of a man in Tennessee as recently as 1833. ""The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. In Diné culture, witches are seen as the polar opposite"
"Broken Glass (play) Broken Glass is a 1994 play by Arthur Miller, focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht, in Nazi Germany. The play's title is derived from Kristallnacht, which is also known as the ""Night of Broken Glass"". Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg are a Jewish married couple living in Brooklyn, New York City, in the last days of November 1938. Phillip works on foreclosures, at a Brooklyn mortgage bank. When Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralyzed from the waist down, after reading about the events of Kristallnacht in the newspaper, Phillip contacts"
"trials. The Arthur Miller play on which it was based was written as an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare, which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. Miller was himself questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956. Several women and men in the town are accused of witchcraft by a group of young girls led by Abigail Williams. Her jealousy of John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth, leads Abigail to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft. John himself is eventually accused and hangs rather than recant, saying he can't dirty his name and stands up for what he"
"to become ill because of supposed and she is accused of witchcraft. In the 1957 and 1996 film adaptations of Miller's play, he was portrayed by Jean Debucourt and Bruce Davison, respectively. Parris is also a character in ""Tituba of Salem Village"" by Ann Petry, another work of fiction relating to the witch trials. In the novel ""Supernatural: One Year Gone"", Parris is portrayed as having been manipulated by the real witches into starting the trials and also manipulated the girls to accuse his enemies and rivals to get rid of them. At the end of the novel, after the"
"""almost perfect screen adaptation"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Crucible (1996 film) The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film written by Arthur Miller adapting his play of the same title, inspired by the Salem witchcraft trials. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor, Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams, Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth, Bruce Davison as Reverend Parris, and Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor. Much of the filming took place on Hog Island in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Despite the film's lacklustre box office performance, Arthur"
"made to the earliest petition (of 1692) by Danforth, since it did not include all of his lands, and a number of subsequent petitions were objected to by neighboring communities. It was not until 1700, after Danforth had died, that the town of Framingham was granted a charter. The town's seal contains the words ""Danforth's Farm"" in commemoration of this heritage. Danforth, Maine is named in his honor. The Danforth Museum of Art, founded in 1975, is located in Framingham. In Arthur Miller's play ""The Crucible,"" Danforth is depicted as the leading judicial figure overseeing the Salem trials. William Stoughton"
"successful on its own level. Speculations that Shakespeare may have played either William the Conqueror or Valingford have also not been judged favorably. Brian Vickers believes the play to be by Thomas Kyd. The first modern-day revival production of ""Fair Em"" opened in 2013 at the Union Theatre, Southwark, London. Directed by Phil Willmott. this performance ran from January 8 to February 9. Fair Em Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written c. 1590. It was bound together with ""Mucedorus"" and ""The Merry Devil of Edmonton"" in a volume labelled ""Shakespeare."
"to ""A Quest for Security"" (page 83). In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials broke out after several girls claimed to be targeted by a 'devilish hand'. After several months, over 150 men, women, and children were charged with witchcraft and sorcery. The Trials were diminishing around September 1692 when the public began to resist the idea of witchcraft. Eventually, the Massachusetts General Court granted freedom to all those accused of sorcery and apologized to their families for the hardships created from the Salem Witch Trials. Shortly after Parris Samuel affairs with the church in 1692, his daughter Elizabeth Parris and"
"the 1692 Salem witch trials, Andover resident Joseph Ballard asked for help for his wife from several girls in the neighboring Salem Village who were already identifying witches there. After visiting Elizabeth Ballard, the girls claimed that several people in Andover had bewitched her: Ann Foster, her daughter Mary Lacey Sr. and her granddaughter Mary Lacey Jr. During the course of the legal proceedings, more than 40 Andover citizens, mostly women and their children, were formally accused of having made a covenant with the Devil. Three Andover residents, Martha Carrier, Mary Parker, and Samuel Wardwell, were convicted and executed. Five"
"Carrier"" has inspired hundreds of people as one of many who suffered with courage under a frenzied and baseless witch-hunt. Twenty benches stand in a Memorial for the victims in a downtown park in Salem, one for each of those who were killed in the hysteria. Martha Carrier (Salem witch trials) Martha Carrier (née Allen; born between 1643 and 1650 – died 19 August 1692) was a Puritan accused and convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials. Martha Ingalls Allen was born between 1643 and 1650 to Andrew Allen (or Allin) (1623–1690), one of the original"
"Salem that was reprinted by Burr in 1914. The play's action takes place 70 years after the community arrived as settlers from Britain. The people on whom the characters are based would have retained strong regional dialects from their home country. Miller gave all his characters the same colloquialisms, such as ""Goody"" or ""Goodwife"", and drew on the rhythms and speech patterns of the King James Bible to achieve the effect of historical perspective he wanted. Miller originally called the play ""Those Familiar Spirits"" before renaming it as ""The Crucible"". The word ""crucible"" is defined as a severe test or"
"to recommend a reprieve, with a stall in Glasgow city centre. The petition received 30,000 signatures, but it was turned down. Miller was hanged at 8.02 a.m. on 22 December by official executioner Harry Allen, assisted by Robert Leslie Stewart. It was the last execution to take place at HMP Barlinnie. A theatre play about Miller's last days in the condemned cell, ""Please, Mister"" (the title comes from Miller's alleged last words on the scaffold), was written by Patrick Harkins and first performed in 2010. The initial production starred Iain De Caestecker (in the role of Miller) and David Hayman."
"Resurrection Blues Resurrection Blues (2002) is Arthur Miller's penultimate play. Though Miller was not known for his humor, this play uses a pointed comedic edge to intensify his observations about the dangers, as well as the benefits, of blind belief: political, religious, economic and emotional. The story is set in an unnamed Latin American country that is painfully third world. The plot revolves around a captured prisoner who may or may not be the second coming of Christ, though Miller deliberately leaves the divinity of his unseen protagonist ambiguous. He is said to be able to perform miracles such as"
"Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. Willy Loman returns home exhausted after a business trip he has cancelled. Worried over Willy's state of mind and recent car accident, his wife Linda suggests"
"Matt Wayne, and editing a drama column in the magazine ""The New Masses"". Two months after Miller died Peter O'Toole called him a ""bore"" and Roger Kimball went on record saying that Miller's artistic accomplishments were meager. Critical articles Organizations Archive Databases Websites Interviews Obituaries Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ""All My Sons"" (1947), ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949), ""The Crucible"" (1953) and ""A View from the Bridge"" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote"
"No Villain No Villain is a play written by Arthur Miller during his sophomore year of college in 1936, during spring break. This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award in drama, the first of two that he won. ""No Villain"" explores Marxist theory and inner conflict through an individual facing ruin as a result of a strike. The audience is introduced in the first scene to the Simons, an immigrant family, in their parlor anxiously awaiting the return of their son from university. The Simons were at once"
"Incident at Vichy Incident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller about a group of men detained in Vichy France; and held to wait unknowingly, for what turns out to be their ""racial"" inspection by German military officers and Vichy French police during World War II. It focuses on the subjects of human nature, guilt, fear, and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance. The play premiered on Broadway on December 3, 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre in New York City. The production closed on"
"generally known as the ""Salem"" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns: Salem Village (now Danvers), Salem Town, Ipswich, and Andover. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process. It was not unique, but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon"
"a tier one Equity company, then located on 14th Street in the in 1981. Incident at Vichy Incident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller about a group of men detained in Vichy France; and held to wait unknowingly, for what turns out to be their ""racial"" inspection by German military officers and Vichy French police during World War II. It focuses on the subjects of human nature, guilt, fear, and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance. The play premiered on Broadway on December 3, 1964,"
"noted above. In modern scholarship, the attributions of authorship that have attracted the most support are to Robert Wilson and to Anthony Munday. The attribution to Munday relies on similarities between ""Fair Em"" and ""John a Kent and John a Cumber."" A later play, John Day's ""The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green"" (1600), bears noteworthy resemblances to ""Fair Em"". The plot derives from traditional sources; a ballad titled ""The Miller's Daughter of Manchester"" was entered into the Stationers' Register on 2 March 1581. In the main plot, William the Conqueror falls in love with the image on the shield that"