... wing (Elsom 139). After a few years McCarthy had died and the committees were dissolved. The Crucible was included in schools as a modern classic. A political jou alist might have summed up Arthur Miller's achievement like this: he had helped to rally the moderates against the forces of ... . 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 ... p...

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... artists in different environments. O'Neill describes a more or less traditional family, while Shepard's characters are very much influenced by the twentieth century pop culture and its art. As a consequence, O'Neill's "classic- family consists of people who represent classical fields of art: the mother is a pianist, the father and Jamie are actors in a theatre and Edmund (and in a way his brother, either ... 's usage of words - "Whadya' call it when something's been said a thousand times before- (51) -- in turn his brother condemns his plot -- "It's as phony as Hoppalong Cassidy- (35). G...

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