| Miller had been absent from the stage since The Crucible, in which he used the Salem witch trials as allegory for McCarthyism. |
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| From this viewpoint, the Salem witch trials of 1692 are a logical consequence of their narrow-mindedness and bigotry. |
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| She faces a jury of famous villains and a judge from the Salem witch trials. |
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| The vengeful crowd in Peter Grimes might as well be the townsfolk in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter – in which a young woman is tyrannised for her adultery – or the prosecutors of the Salem witch trials. |
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| His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. |
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