The Crucible is a play about witchcraft. It all begins with a group of young women playing with witchcraft taught by Tituba and Abigail William's. Reverend Parris found them and most of the girls scattered but the smallest girls stayed, frozen with fear. The people of Salem, where the ...

Historical Drama and the Dimensions of Tragedy: A Man For All Seasons and The Crucible A comparison of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and Arthur Miller's The Crucible demonstrates the potentiality of historical drama to produce melodrama or tragedy. Written at approximately t...