Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashioning his play, Miller did extensive research, even traveling to Salem to read the trial records. In a justified exercise of artistic license, Miller acknowledges that he occasionally condensed several people into one character and also raised the age of Abigail, the ringleader of the girls who began the madness. But the play is essentially faithful to the historical facts available...
...King George III with inciting "domestic insurrections amongst us." It meant Britain's encouragement of Indian attacks upon colonists, but Massachusetts Delegate John Adams says that "another tribe more numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented." The warning in fact came from his spirited wife Abigail, who recently surprised her husband by addressing him in terms less than dutiful: "In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. If particular...
...whose previous work is thought to include three other anonymously published (and unperformed) anti-British satires-The Adulateur (1772), The Defeat (1773) and The Group (1775). Although Mrs. Warren has never publicly claimed authorship of these plays, her reticence may be attributed to feminine modesty. A friend and confidante, Abigail Adams, explains that Mrs. Warren fears that severe satire may be "incompatible with that benevolence which ought always to be predominant in a female character...
...center of revolutionary agitation in colonial Boston, is a fair example of how the series works. For Adams' rise to large status in our political history is paralleled by a shrewd depiction of his personal progress from a bachelorhood feverish with suppressed sexuality to a courtship of Abigail (appealingly played by Kathryn Walker) that is near-comic in its ardor...
WHAT REMAINS is best captured in a letter Abigail wrote two days after Christmas in 1778: "How insupportable the Idea that 3000 leigues, and the vast ocean now devide us--but devide only our persons for the Heart of my Friend is in the Bosom of his partner. More than half a score years has so rivetted it there, that the Fabrick which contains it must crumble into Dust, e'er the particles can be separated...