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- Soon after The Crucible was released, Miller was refused a visa to visit Brussels due to alleged communist sympathies. In response, he wrote a satirical piece titled "A Modest Proposal for the Pacification of the Public Temper," in which he denied supporting the communist cause. The title references a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels, called A Modest Proposal.
- George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1923) includes historical notes, a trial, confessions, and recantations. The play explores themes of social order and individual freedom, similar to those in The Crucible.
- Marion L. Starkey's book, The Witch Trials in Massachusetts (Knopf, 1949), was published before The Crucible and was among the first to spark interest in the Salem Witch Trials. The book provides an intriguing counterpoint to Miller's play, laying the historical foundation upon which he built his narrative.
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