“In the play, John Proctor is the tragic hero,” Belflower said. “He is the only person in this town speaking up against these false allegations, he ends up being hanged because he refuses to ...

The loud title of the Broadway play “John Proctor is the Villain” reads like the rare high-school essay that wasn’t ... the wronged John Proctor is our hero. Then the #MeToo movement hits.

Lusty and conniving, Miller’s Abigail has an affair with her former boss, John Proctor, and after she ... which casts John as its tragic hero. Williams was, in fact, only 11 or 12 years old ...

Belflower decided to reread “The Crucible.” She was struck by how John Proctor — long venerated as the tragic hero in this paradigmatic tale of American persecution — was also a menace who ...