كتاب
The Crucible: politics, property, and pretense
| العنوان: | The Crucible: politics, property, and pretense |
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| المؤلفون: | Martine, James J. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Toronto : Twayne ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. |
| سنة النشر: | 1993 |
| وصف مادي: | xvii, 126 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Twayne's masterwork studies Twayne's masterwork studies |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Salem (Mass.) in literature., Witchcraft in literature., Trials (Witchcraft) in literature. |
| Subject Person: | Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Crucible. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Salem (Mass.) -- In literature. |
| الوصف: | The 1953 premiere of The Crucible confirmed Arthur Miller's reputation as one of America's most important and serious playwrights as it underscored the earlier success of Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Death of a Salesman. While dealing with the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, The Crucible reveals Miller's concern with issues of individual conscience and guilt by association - issues that were manifest in the social and political problems of his own time. The drama is both a historical play of 17th-century colonial America and a parable about the communist witch-hunts in the United States of the 1950s. Miller uses the moral absolutism of Puritan Salem to parallel the infamous congressional hearings led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The events which frame Miller's tragic drama are separated by some two hundred and sixty years, but are joined by circumstances where elements of disparate societies seek only evidence of guilt and ignore or suppress all evidence to suggest otherwise. With universal themes that transcend time and place, including national borders, The Crucible remains one of the most often produced American plays worldwide. In The Crucible: Politics, Property, and Pretense, James J. Martine extends his analysis beyond the standard critical appraisals that compare the drama's setting only to the time in which it was written - the McCarthy era. Martine examines in detail Miller's historical sources and the ways in which he adapted this material to his contemporary audience. Martine suggests the play should be "read" within a variety of contexts, that is, as a product of and reaction to the McCarthy era, as a milestone in the development of Miller's work, as an exemplar of the genre of tragedy, as part of the tradition of American theatre, and as a basis for later adaptations. in his discussion, Martine considers both the written text and the play as public performance. He examines the play's settings, props, and exits and entrances, and draws attention to the various ways in which Miller built these directions about the play's performance into the written text. Martine argues convincingly that The Crucible should not be approached as a monochromatic written text as it often has been, but as a multifaceted performance text. His study includes photographs of a contemporary staged production, in addition to commentary on Robert Ward's Pulitzer prize-winning opera based on Miller's drama. Martine's multi-leveled exploration enables the reader to understand and thus appreciate The Crucible and Arthur Miller more fully. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Chronology: Arthur Miller's life and works -- Literary and historical context : Matrices: distant and near ; The importance of the work ; Critical reception -- A reading : "In the closet or on the stage?": the reader and an audience ; Mise-en-scène ; Structure ; Themes and conflict ; Characters ; Arthur Miller and history: the guilted ages ; Name ; Triangles ; Tragedy ; Analogues. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm27430605 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8057-8096-3 978-0-8057-8584-5 0-8057-8096-3 0-8057-8584-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.003497527.6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780805780963 9780805785845 0805780963 0805785841 |
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