The Crucible
A Play in Four Acts
- First published:
- 20th century
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
- Content type: Fiction
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massachusetts. In Salem, Massachusetts, a dozen teen-age girls and a black slave woman are caught dancing in the woods around a bubbling cauldron. A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Witchcraft and folk magic.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description, “voodoo” in the subject metadata, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
- “Witchcraft”· in description
- “voodoo”· in subject
- “Witchcraft”· in subject
- “witches”· in subject
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Editions
Open Library reports 83 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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A Play in Four Acts Open Library record | 1976 | Penguin Books | English |
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Subjects
- Fiction
- History
- Witchcraft
- Literature
- Antiquities
- Histoire
- Biography
- Bible
- History and criticism
- Satanism
- Witches
- Trials (Witchcraft)
- Drama
- American literature
- Historical fiction
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Classic Literature
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- Witch hunting
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Witchcraft in literature
- Proces (sorcellerie)
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- In literature
- alcoholism
- Théâtre
- Plays
- Cold war
- American drama
- Communism
- Fiction, classics
- Native Americans
- Trials (Witchcraft) in literature
- Trials
- king philip's war
- theocracy
- Ten Commandments
- pressing
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 83 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL66347W
- Edition coverage
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