The Crucible
by Arthur Miller

The Crucible Project
Extensive, strong site on historical and cultural aspects of the play; categorized links galore (http://204.165.132.2:90/crucible/main3.htm)

17th Century Primary Sources
Impressive, annotated set of links, from "Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692" to men’s and women’s fashions
http://www.ogram.org/17thc/primarysources.shtml

National Geographic
There is supposed to be an interactive site in which you are a witch&endash;I couldn’t get it to load, but didn’t get a message saying it no longer exists; try a search and see what you can find
www.nationalgeographic.com

Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact & Fiction (or Picky, Picky, Picky...)
A site in which a Salem expert (she’s writing a novel about her greatx10 grandmother Rebecca Nurse) examines the historical inaccuracies in the play; she also asks thought-provoking questions on creative license
http://www.ogram.org/17thc/crucible.shtml

Hysteria and Ideology in The Crucible by Richard Hayes text of a 1953 review
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/crucible.html

SCORE Cyberguide
Three lessons: What are the relationships between the characters of The Crucible?
•What contributed to the events leading up to the real witch trials of 1692?
•How do the political events of the 1950s contribute to our understanding of The Crucible?
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cruc/cructg.html

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