ARTHUR MILLER'S THE CRUCIBLE: FACT & FICTION (OR PICKY, PICKY, PICKY...) BY MARGO BURNS NEW CONTENT ADDED 02/01/04 A NOTE ON THE HISTORICAL ACCURACY OF THIS PLAY by Arthur Miller "This play is not history in the sense in which the word is used by the academic historian. Dramatic purposes have sometimes required many characters to be fused into one; the number of girls involved in the 'crying out' has been reduced; Abigail's age has been …showed first 75 words of 3065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3065 total…children's testimony be evaluated when children have been proven to be very impressionable and eager to give the answers that adults lead them to give? 6.Why do teachers assign projects to their students to compare the events in the play to what really happened historically? What kind of conclusions do teachers expect their students to make about how to navigate between art and history when faced with the kind of information provided on this page?