The Crucible (Record no. 9636)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0141182555
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141182551
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency GBVCP
Language of cataloging ger
Transcribing agency GBVCP
Description conventions rakwb
041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 812.52
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Miller, Arthur
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Crucible
Remainder of title a play in four acts
260 3# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 126 p
Dimensions 20/13/0,7cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "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 are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note IB
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Witchcraft
General subdivision American Literature
Chronological subdivision 20th century
Geographic subdivision Salem, Massachusetts
655 04 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term CLASSICS
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Genre/form data or focus term THEATER
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Genre/form data or focus term HISTORICAL FICTION
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Koha item type Books
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