... 7 - 8). The Crucible has a narrator, a voice not a character, that tells us about the characters and the action and helps us to understand the moral implications. The director of the l958 off-Broadway revival for The Crucible drew the consequences of the revised text and introduced 'a narrator,' called The Reader, to set the scenes and give the historical background of the play. The introduction of a 'narrator' element in The Crucible is closely related to Miller's attempts to have a separate voice present the author's view of the 'generalized significance' of the ... 'action' in the la...

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