He was a widower with no interest in children, or talent with them.
In meeting, he felt insulted if someone rose to shut the door without first asking his permission. He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side. In history he cut a villainous path, and there is very little good to be said for him. At the time of these events Parris was in his middle forties.
His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert. As the curtain rises, Reverend Parris is discovered kneeling be-side the bed, evidently in prayer. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed. The room gives op an air of clean spareness. At the back a door opens on the landing of the stairway to the ground floor. A chest, a chair, and a small table are the other furnishings. A candle still burns near the bed, which is at the right. Through its leaded panes the morning sunlight streams. It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama.Small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. The production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold, and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted "a powerful play driving performance"). Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller.
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