The modern-day relevance of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, will be the topic of a public lecture April 22. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. in Drayton Hall Theater.
The lecture coincides with a production of The Crucible by USC's Theatre South Carolina, which will run April 18–27.
Patrick Maney, a U.S. historian and chair of the history department, and Mathieu Deflem, sociology, will discuss Miller's play, which was intended to tell a story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and double as commentary on the communist hysteria propagated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
Maney has written about McCarthy and his relationship to Sen. Robert M. La Follette Jr., whom he defeated to gain a Senate seat. Deflem studies the sociology of law and social order.
For more information, contact Tim Donahue at 7-9353 or donahue@sc.edu.
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