# Plays Hub Index for `Works/Plays/` — 8 stage works that function as political documents. - [[The Crucible]] (1953) — Miller's Salem allegory for McCarthyism; the reference text for moral-panic dynamics - [[Angels in America]] (1991) — the AIDS crisis, Roy Cohn, and Reagan-era politics on stage - [[A Raisin in the Sun]] (1959) — housing covenants and Black middle-class aspiration - [[Waiting for Lefty]] (1935) — agitprop labour theatre at its most direct - [[The Melting Pot]] (1908) — the play that gave assimilation its dominant metaphor - [[Julius Caesar (play)]] — the tyrannicide text, and a recurring flashpoint when staged in modern dress - [[Hamilton]] (2015) — founding-era myth-making as popular culture - [[Gas Light]] (1938) — the origin of "gaslighting" as a term for reality-denial ## Why theatre earns a folder Two of these supplied vocabulary the KB uses daily: [[Gas Light]] gave *gaslighting*, and [[The Crucible]] gave *witch hunt* its modern political sense. **A play that donates a word to political language has done more durable work than most pamphlets.** ## Neighbours - [[Films Hub]] · [[Songs Hub]] · [[Audio Hub]] - [[Works Hub]] — the master index