My project is a podcast examining Arthur Miller’s 1953 play the The Crucible and its connection to the historical witch figure and the communist scare in the 1950s. It’s a teaching tool aimed at grade twelve level students. Enjoy!
Bibliography
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Latner, Richard. “The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692.” Journal of Social History 42, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 137-255.
Levack, Brian P, ed. “The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692.” In The Witchcraft Sourcebook, 2nd ed., 285–94. Routledge, 2015.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.
“Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible,’” The New Yorker, accessed May 15, 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible.
Writing Details
- Mateya Tomasino
- June 7, 2020
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This work by Mateya Tomasino is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International License.- Witches, Communists, and Arthur Miller Cover Photo by Mateya Tomasino
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