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1) The crucible
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English
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
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English
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"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 searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
3) Hocus pocus
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English
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After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
4) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1986
Language
English
Description
In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told in flashback fashion.
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English
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This classic collection-the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available-presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well...
10) The crucible
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, a group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by one of the town's ministers, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial.
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Series
Viking critical library volume VCL-7
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
14) Maid of Salem
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the salem witch craft trials, an independent young woman much prove her innocence when she is accused of casting spells on the Puritan townsfolk.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem’s ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite – a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town’s unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and new – from within...
Author
Publisher
Caedmon
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The author took an active role in this production, done especially for this recording, of his 1949 play in which Cobb and Dunnock recreate their Broadway roles (1). A play based on the Salem witch trials of the 17th century; the portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria serves as an indictment of McCarthyism (2).
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