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Mary Warren's Accusation

from The Crucible

Written by Arthur Miller

Mary Warren's Accusation from The Crucible — audition scene

A hysterical, fearful, self-righteous, accusatory Mary Warren's monologue from "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. Genre: drama.

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MARY WARREN

I never knew it before. I never knew anything before. When she come into the court I say to myself, I must not accuse this woman, for she sleeps in ditches, and so very old and poor. But then- then she sit there, denying and denying, and I feel a misty coldness climbin' up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to creep, and I feel a clamp around my neck…

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