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Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (1996-03)
ISBN: 0395775515
EAN: 9780395775516
Dewey Decimal #: 808.88
Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
SKU: 20125
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Former High School owned Book with stamp inside front cover and on first edge page.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition.
"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times)
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Customer Reviews
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Great for teachers!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-02
This follows the play 99% of the time - every once in a while a word is substituted or a phrase turned around, but that's it. My students had no problem following the play. In fact, they prefer the taped reading over reading aloud in class. I'm in a Title I school with a high percentage of behavior problems and this was a "God send." The students listened much better with the taped reading.
The actors are animated and match the personalities of the characters. I recommend it highly.
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Hard to follow along
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-09-22
I bought this cd set to read the play along with my students. It's very theatrical and there are a lot of sound effects. The actors go so fast, that it's hard to follow along if you're reading the play. There's a lot of mumbling, sighing, heavy-breathing. Anyway, if you are wanting to just listen to it, this is a great purchase. If you want to read along, I would try a different cd set.
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Fantastic
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-11-21
I love this book. It is accurate and an easy read. I finished it in about a day. In addition to the the play, there are other related readings enclosed which give more insight to historical events and other perspectives. Out of all the copies I own, this is one of the better ones. A great deal, ships quickly and reasonably priced.
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Another L.A. Theatre Works Success
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-11-18
I have to admit that I was a big fan of L.A. Theatre Works long before I purchased The Crucible. L.A. Theatre Works has a weekly presentation of its performances on Sonic Theater, a XM Radio station.
This particular production is pretty much an all-star cast with the likes of Michael York and Richard Dreyfus. I purchased it as a tool for teaching The Crucible in my American literature class.
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A great read of the play by professionals
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-10-02
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The L.A. Theatre Works' rendition of Miller's _The Crucible_ is an excellent demonstration of the actor's craft, as the tenor, pitch and emotive power of the play bring the characters to life. On the recommendation of Amazon reviewers, I used this for my English class (in addition to the Daniel Day-Lewis / Winona Rider DVD and a class read-around) to get a feel for the play and the various theatrical interpretations of the work.
As a previous reviewer noted, there are some differences between the audio version and Miller's script, but they are minor, and if one is not using the entire CD, a moot point. The performances are fantastic, and, as others have mentioned, it certainly gives life to the written word. Outside of a classroom, I couldn't recommend it, but as a teaching tool, it is first-rate.
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