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Article: SCR makes Cotton Mather come alive
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- Daily Breeze
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- April 16, 2004
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SPECIAL TO RAVE!
\STLrave \STLadi History has done little to improve the
reputation of Cotton Mather. Born in 1663, the Harvard educated
Puritan minister was one of the church's most prolific writers, and
he was widely considered a worthy heir to the long line of Mathers in
the clergy.
But despite his numerous works, Cotton Mather is only remembered
as the man whose investigation of alleged witchcraft in Salem led to
the infamous 1692 trials that sent 19 people to the gallows for
supposedly being a witch or wizard.
Cotton Mather died in 1728, but his legend from the events in
Salem live. And if Amy Freed's "Safe in Hell" is as successful as her
last play _ and it deserves to be _ the ...