![]() Schiff introduces her readers to several other people integral to the proceedings of 1692, or integral to the political debate and much of the literature devoted to the Salem witch trials. John Proctor is a central in Miller’s play, and while his dignified death is recounted in Schiff’s book, he is not central to the whole drama. The scope of his drama is also necessarily more focused. ![]() Miller acknowledges at the start of his play that he found it necessary to limit the range of characters for dramatic purposes, sometimes conflating several into one. ![]() The Crucible is one of the best plays I have read, but Schiff’s book promised to make the account of the trials and executions dramatized in Miller’s play seem mild in comparison. Like many people, I suspect, my knowledge of the trials is based on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. ![]() Stacy Schiff’s account of the Salem witch trials of 1692 is fascinating to read. ![]()
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