Sarah Osborn A sickly woman whose illness.
The only explanation for these bizarre behaviors A doctor examined the girls and concluded that.Williams started having fits of convulsion, Reverend Samuel Parriss daughter and Abigail.The witchcraft hysteria began in Salem in early.In Salem, witchcraft was a very serious sin AND.Puritans believed that witches made a deal with.All Puritans strongly believed in witches and.Were also hyper-aware of the Devil and witchcraft. Since they believed strongly in the Bible, they.They formed a city on a hill with religion for.They split from the Church of England in 1633.Religion that originated in England in the 1600s.Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem." The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.
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