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  • Shortly after The Crucible was published, and Miller was denied a visa to visit Brussels on the grounds of his supposed communist sympathies, he wrote a satirical piece called "A Modest Proposal for the Pacification of the Public Temper" in which denied that he supported the communist cause. The title is a reference to another satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, entitled A Modest Proposal.
  • George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1923) contains historical notes, a trial, confessions and recantations, and...

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