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    In a classic play, she is a teenage seductress, though in reality, she was 11 years old and her supposed lover was in his 60s. Whatever her age, she was partly responsible for the unjust deaths of at least 19 people during a famous panic. Who was she, and what later panic is said to have inspired the play?

    Question #60298. Asked by lanfranco. (Oct 31 05 4:12 PM)


    TabbyTom

    		This must be Abigail Williams, a principal figure in the witchcraft trials at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.

    The play seems to be inspired by the “Red scare” of the late 1940s and early 1950s in the US, in which Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have evidence of Communist infiltration of the State Department, the armed forces, the entertainment industry and just about every other area of American life.


    Oct 31 05, 4:38 PM
    lanfranco

    		Yay, TT! And the play is, of course, Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."

    Happy Halloween!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible

    Oct 31 05, 4:47 PM

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