![]() Where Miller assembled a cast of about 20 characters, Shiff's dramatis personae (which she does list for reference at the beginning of the book) runs to 94. ![]() ![]() This is easy to do… because it is exactly what she does. To enjoy Schiff's interpretation of events, you need to take a step back and set aside whatever you think you know about Salem. Arthur Miller's play is rightly seen as an allegory of the McCarthyism in 1950s America – but having read Schiff's more academic approach to the source tale, it's easy to see that Miller's drama is much more about the hunting down of the 'red menace' than about what might have happened in New England two hundred and fifty years earlier. That particular lens was the very current witch-hunt that was going on at the time. ![]() Like most people I know the story of Salem through the very particular lens of The Crucible. ![]()
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