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Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 4
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Salem, Mass, 1692, Betty's bedroom
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene One

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Abigail: How is Ruth sick?

Mercy: It’s weirdish, I know not--she seems to walk like a dead one since last night.

Abigail: Betty? (Betty doesn’t move. She shakes her.) Now stop this! Betty! Sit up now!

Mercy: Have tried beatin’ her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her …

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Mary: What’s got her? Abby, she’s going to die! It’s a sin to conjure and we …

Abigail: I say shut it, Mary Warren!

Arthur Miller, The Crucible. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 1982, pp.11-12.

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