The crucible : a play in four acts / by Arthur Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin plays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Massachusetts--Salem--Drama.

Witchcraft.

Massachusetts--Salem.

Salem (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Drama.

Salem (Mass.).

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 152 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England] : Penguin Books, [1976]

Summary:

A drama based on the witch trials in Salem Village.

Notes:

"Published in Penguin Books 1976."

'The Crucible' "presented by Kermit Bloomgarden at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York in January 22, 1953."

Appendix contains Act II, Scene 2 (p. 148-152) "which appeared in the original production, was dropped by the author from the published reading verion, the 'Collected Plays,' and all Compass editions prior to 1971. It has not been included in most productions subsequent to the revival at New York's Martinique Theatre in 1958 and was dropped by Sir. Laurence Olivier in his London production in 1965."-- P. 81.

Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

0140481389 :

OCLC:

3542527