The Crucible

 

 

 

Resources

• Curriculum Units - The Crucible
• Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact & Fiction
• Dr. Gleason's Crucible Web Site - offers links related to Arthur Miller's play, the Salem witch trials, and the McCarthy hearings.
• Crucible Project, The
• Arthur Miller's The Crucible - from HarperAudio and IMS. Sound clips of selected scenes.
• Why I Wrote The Crucible - 1996 New Yorker piece in which Arthur Miller discusses his work on the play.

 

Student Resources

• ClassicNotes: The Crucible - resource includes summary, character list, author profile, and links.
• Jen's Crucible Page - provides links to help students with homework that pertains to The Crucible.
• MonkeyNotes: The Crucible - includes information about the author, play, characters, and other elements, plus act summaries.

 

Salem Witch Trials

• Puritans
• Petition of Accused Witch Mary Easty - resident of the Massachusetts Colony, who in 1692 was falsely accused of withcraft and executed.
• Benjamin Ray's Witchcraft in Salem Village
• Causes of the Salem Witch Trials
• The Salem Witch Trials - links and background information
• The Salem Witchcraft Papers
• The Witchcraft Archives

 

Adaptations

• Crucible, The - official site for the 2002 revival of the play by Arthur Miller, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
• Salem Repossessed - review by Rebecca Tannenbaum, visiting assistant professor of history at Yale University, of the 2002 play The Crucible
• The Movie
• Learning Guide to the Movie