Mary Beth Norton

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2003)

"The Crucible," by Arthur Miller, is an illuminating piece of theater. But as one of America's most often produced plays, it casts a spell over our cultural imagination that complicates the historian's task. The factual inaccuracies - composite characters, age changes, the adulterous affair at th...