This is ridiculous. You can’t read. Miller himself said it was not only a story of hysteria in Salem it was about the supposed hysteria during the McCarthy era. When did I deny that? I didn’t. I said the play can be read simply as a story of Salem. Which is why it is still produced. If it was simple 50s agit-prop, it would be gathering dust on the shelves of Samuel French.
And knock off the dear woman stuff. I’m a theater professional and I know what I’m talking about.
This was agitprop in the prep school I attended the teachers used to orgasm over it, most were Nasty leftists.
Who presents it, Colleges, Off Broadway, and rather snooty up scale communities.