You Know Now's video: THE CRUCIBLE - Fascinating Facts Trivia - Arthur Miller

Want to impress your friends with your knowledge? Check out these fascinating facts about Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Great trivia! Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the first screenplay of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The first Broadway production got lukewarm reviews. A crucible is a time of great change, where society is seemingly being melted and recast. Miller, best known for Death of A Salesman was married to Marilyn Monroe. Miller’s defiance of McCarthyism got him convicted for contempt of court. The original version of the play included an encounter between John Proctor and Abigail in the woods. The play is considered relevant today. Royalty-free music contained in this video: "Ossuary 7 " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... summary full title · The Crucible author · Arthur Miller type of work · Play genre · Tragedy, allegory language · English time and place written · America, early 1950s date of first publication · 1953 publisher · Viking Press narrator · The play is occasionally interrupted by an omniscient, third-person narrator who fills in the background for the characters. climax · John Proctor tells the Salem court that he committed adultery with Abigail Williams. protagonist · John Proctor antagonist · Abigail Williams setting · Salem, a small town in colonial Massachusetts point of view · The Crucible is a play, so the audience and reader are entirely outside the action. falling action · The events from John Proctor’s attempt to expose Abigail in Act IV to his decision to die rather than confess at the end of Act IV. tense · Present foreshadowing · The time frame of the play is extremely compressed, and the action proceeds so quickly that there is little time for foreshadowing.