"Salem, Massachusetts" . "The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists."@en . "Elizabeth Proctor" . "John Proctor" . "Reverend Samuel Parris" . "Thomas Danforth" . "Reverend John Hale" . "1953Z"^^ . "1953-01-22Z"^^ . . "Salem witch trials,McCarthyism" . "John Hathorne" . "Mary Warren" . "Abigail Williams" . "Rebecca Nurse" . "Giles Corey" . . .