{"product_id":"9780141182551-the-crucible","title":"The Crucible","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Play in Four Acts\u003cbr\u003eShows how the small city of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. This is a depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible \u003c\/i\u003eis also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942999470177,"sku":"9780141182551","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32416908.jpg?v=1737274999","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141182551-the-crucible","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}