"to Make It My Home"", ""Congregational Way"" and """". Motivated in part by the question of how the Holocaust could have happened, Starkey delved into the Salem archives to explore the underpinnings of an earlier, American tragedy: the Salem Witch Trials. Working from court records, she created a psychological portrait tracing the development of the event from child fantasies to societal hysteria, eventually publishing in 1949 ""The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials"". Arthur Miller is said to have used this work in his research for ""The Crucible"". Marion L. Starkey Marion Lena Starkey (April"
"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"
"on January 22, 1953, starring E. G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although ""The New York Times"" noted ""a powerful play [in a] driving performance""). Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. The opening narration explains the context of Salem and the Puritan colonists of Massachusetts, which the narrator depicts as"
"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"
"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"
"1953 Perry Miller published ""The New England Mind: From Colony to Province"" (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). Miller worked from the Harvard English Department and his expansive prose contains few citations, but the ""Bibliographical Notes"" for Chapter XIII ""The Judgement of the Witches"" references the bibliographies of TJ Holmes (above) calling Holmes portrayal of Cotton Mather's composition of ""Wonders"" ""an epoch in the study of Salem Witchcraft."" However, following the discovery of the authentic holograph of the September 2, 1692 letter, in 1985, David Levin writes that the letter demonstrates that the timeline employed by TJ Holmes and Perry"
"1953, and running for 132 performances. Various revivals of the play have included: Other actresses who have portrayed Hester Collyer have included Penelope Keith. Prior to Rattigan's coding of his relationship with Morgan into the heterosexual relationship between Hester and Freddie, his first draft of the play more specifically treated the relationship between the lead characters as a homosexual relationship, and also hinted that the reason for the striking off of Miller, the ex-doctor in the play, from the register was due to Miller's homosexual preferences. Taking place over the course of one day, the play begins with the discovery"
"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."
"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"
"tour with his new bride. Filmed on location and first broadcast by NBC as the pilot for a weekly TV series. The project failed to post a sale and St. James went on to costar in McMillan & Wife. The Crucible (1972) – A New Mexico State University production opening September 30, 1972. The Arthur Miller play, first produced in New York in 1955, explores the notorious witch hunts of Salem, Mass. Starring Kimbrough as NMSU guest artist, in the role of Jon Proctor and featuring Cornelia Easterling and Marcia Thomas. Night Call Nurses (1972) – Kimbrough delivers a fantastic"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"media remain, for the most part, fictional. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in his 1868 play entitled ""Giles Corey of the Salem Farms"", describes Tituba as ""the daughter of a man all black and fierce…He was an Obi man, and taught [her] magic."" Obeah (also spelled Obi) is a specifically African and Afro-American system of magic."" She featured prominently in the 1953 play ""The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller as well as the 1957 and 1996 film adaptations of the play. Tituba is played by American born actress, Charlayne Woodard, in the 1996 film. The image of Tituba as the instigator of witchcraft"
"Parts 1 and 2 1951 Twelfth Night 1952 The Tempest 1953 Romeo and Juliet 1954 Julius Caesar & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1955 Macbeth & As You Like It 1956 Henry V & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1957 King John & Twelfth Night 1958 King Lear & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959 Henry VIII & The Merchant of Venice 1960 Richard II & The Taming of the Shrew 1961 As You Like It & The Winter's Tale 1962 Much Ado About Nothing & Macbeth 1963 Othello & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1964 Romeo and Juliet & Twelfth Night"
"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"
"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"
"""The Nativity"", based on the Chester and York Mystery Plays of the 14th and 15th centuries, reworked into Elizabethan English. With musical accompaniment by the Robert Shaw Chorale, and presented during the Christmas season of 1952, this was one of the few medieval mystery plays telecast on commercial network television. The cast included Thomas Hardie Chalmers, Miriam Wolfe, Hurd Hatfield, and Paul Tripp. During the 1953 presentation ""Dry Run"", whole sections of a submarine were built inside the studio, and the entire cast was nearly electrocuted when water that was being used for special effects got very close to power"
"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"
"MacHomer MacHomer is a one-person play by Rick Miller which blends William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Macbeth"" with the animated television series ""The Simpsons"". Miller first conceived of the idea in 1994, when he was performing in a production of ""Macbeth"". The first performance of ""MacHomer"" was at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 1995. ""MacHomer"" has been re-written a number of times. The early version of the play was more of a stand-up comedy routine, but in 2000, it was expanded into a theatrical production. In 2006, for the 10th anniversary tour, Miller further revamped the play, adding new songs and characters,"
"do. Rage not against the unfairness of life – life is of course unfair – but against the inequalities, the arrogance of power."" Younger playwrights whose work shows an indebtedness to him include Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh and Gary Mitchell. His latest plays include ""The Wake"" (1997), ""The House"" (2000) and ""The Alice Trilogy"", which premiered in 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre in London with Juliet Stevenson in the eponymous role. In 2006 Murphy directed the Irish premiere of the same play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin with Jane Brennan in the lead role. In 2009, his play,"
"and Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name in 1948. A fictionalized version of the events formed the basis of Meyer Levin's 1956 novel ""Compulsion"" and its 1959 film adaptation. In 1957, two more fictionalized novels were released: ""Nothing but the Night"" by James Yaffe and ""Little Brother Fate"" by Mary-Carter Roberts. ""Never the Sinner"", John Logan's 1988 play, was based on contemporary newspaper accounts of the case, and included an explicit portrayal of Leopold and Loeb's sexual relationship. Other works influenced by the case include Richard Wright's 1940 novel ""Native Son"", Tom Kalin's 1992 film ""Swoon"", Michael Haneke's 1997"
"(2004), ""Dark Shadows"" (2012) and ""Byzantium"" (2013). He has appeared in several theatrical productions on Broadway, most notably ""After Miss Julie"" and ""Frankenstein"", the latter of which earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor. Miller starred as the title character in the ABC comedy-drama ""Eli Stone"" for which he received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor. This was followed by another starring role in the BBC costume drama ""Emma"" and a supporting role as Jordan Chase in the fifth season of the Showtime drama ""Dexter"". He currently stars as a modern-day version of Sherlock Holmes in the CBS"
"is open to question: Bragge's motivation may have been to justify the clergy involved in the case. In 2012, a play entitled ""The Last Witch"" was performed at Hertford Theatre and Walkern Hall, 300 years after the original trial. Written by Kate Miller and directed by former Hertfordshire vicar Richard Syms, the play starred Toni Brooks as the titular character, with Rhiannon Drake as Anne Thorne and Lindsay Cooper as Debora Gardiner. In 2015 a play about Wenham by Rebecca Lenkiewicz opened at Watford Palace Theatre and went on tour. Jane Wenham (alleged witch) Jane Wenham (died 1730) was one"
"asking for it. Jules Massenet's 1881 opera ""Hérodiade"" was based on Flaubert's short story. The 1934 Fantasy novella ""A Witch Shall Be Born"" by Robert E. Howard, one of the Conan the Barbarian cycle, features an evil prehistorical witch named Salome, and it is clearly implied that she was an earlier incarnation of the New Testament character of the same name. Salome is shown in the mystery play as a personification of Carl Jung's pleasure in The Red Book. Through dream analysis and active imagination, she is seen as the ""daughter of Elijah"": a non-historical but rather metaphysical and symbolic"
"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"
"Album"" and ""Shadow Play"", and in 2000, the Williamstown Theatre Festival revived ""We Were Dancing"", ""Family Album"", ""Hands Across the Sea"" (all starring Blythe Danner), ""Red Peppers,"" ""Shadow Play"" and ""Star Chamber"". The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007, as did the Shaw Festival in 2009. The first professional revival of the cycle in the UK was in April 2014, when English Touring Theatre staged all the plays except for ""Star Chamber"". The critic Michael Billington wrote, ""We are used to all-day stagings of Shakespeare. A marathon viewing of three Noel Coward triple bills,"
"to as ""McCarthyism"". McCarthyism can also be synonymous with the term witch-hunt, both referring to mass hysteria and moral panic. The 1951 novel ""The Troubled Air"" by Irwin Shaw tells the story of the director of a (fictional) radio show, broadcast live at the time, who is given a deadline to investigate his cast for alleged links to communism. The novel recounts the devastating effects on all concerned. The 1952 Arthur Miller play ""The Crucible"" used the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for McCarthyism, suggesting that the process of McCarthyism-style persecution can occur at any time or place. The"
"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"
"The Crucifer of Blood The Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle novel ""The Sign of the Four."" It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the travails that her father and his three compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The play, directed by the author, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on September 28, 1978 and ran for 236 performances. The production was nominated for four Tony"
"Wilde 1955: ""The White Sheep of the Family"" by L. duGarde Peach and Ian Hay, ""Accent on Youth"" by Samson Raphaelson, ""Sabrina Fair"" by Samuel A. Taylor"" 1954: ""The Merchant of Venice"" by William Shakespeare 1952: ""Hay Fever"" by Noël Coward 1951: ""The Silver Whistle"" by Robert E. MacEnroe Oct 1949: ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Norman Earl Thomson May 1949: ""Night Must Fall"" by Emlyn Williams Apr 1949: ""Miss Fingernail"" by Beryl Kent, directed by George Mackie + ""Hecuba"" by Euripides, directed by Burton Crane Nov 1896: ""A Lesson in Love"" by Charles Smith Cheltnam"