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The Crucible is a play written in the early 1950's by Arthur Miller. By 1953 the play was running on Broadway at the Martin Beck, audiences and critics loved the play but it was said to be only second best to his earlier production "Death of a Salesman". The political significance of the play was considerable in that it was written as a scathing attack on Senator McCarthy's crusade against supposed communist sympathisers. Miller himself was called before the House of Un-American Activities Committee, when he refused to answer the Committee's questions about the names of persons present at meetings of Communist Party writers that he had attended in the 1930's, he was convicted of contempt of Congress. The U.S. Supreme Court later threw out the conviction. In 1957 the play was produced on film in France, this was because people in the United States were afraid of being branded...

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