The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’

Machielsen, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8492-0263 2026. The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’. [Online]. The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.aavkd43e3

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Abstract

Written at the height of the cold war “red scare”, Arthur Miller’s 1952 play The Crucible was a retelling of the 17th-century Salem witch trials (1692-93) which soon became the classic parable of mass hysteria.

Item Type:	Online Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Global Humanities Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	The Conversation Trust
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2026 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/190442

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