The Crucible
Miller, Arthur / Bigsby, Christopher W. E. A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityA Penguin Classic "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 in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a sear...