Arthur Miller
1) The crucible
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
[This book] has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and shoeshine, [the author] redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity - and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and...
Author
Publisher
Plymbridge
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest creations -- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Einstein's special theory of relativity. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not only from within...
Author
Series
Fábula volume 245
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2008, c1997
Language
Español
Description
Presents both the play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association and the screenplay that the author later wrote to adapt the same material to the medium of film.
11) Jane's blanket
Author
Publisher
Little Gestalten
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Initially dependent on her baby blanket for security, Janie uses it less and less until she discovers a bluebird needs it more than she does.
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic play about 17th-century Salem and the witch trials that took place there. An indictment of Salem society for the crimes of intolerance and religious fanaticism, many compare it to the McCarthy era. Full-cast dramatization.
15) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
19) The Misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A group of cowboys and a young divorcee meet in the Nevada desert to try to find a new life.