'Because it is my name!' | Act II scene 3 | The Crucible (2025) | Shakespeare's Globe

'I have given you my soul, leave me my name!'

SPOILERS AHEAD!

John Proctor (Gavin Drea) has been wrongly found guilty of compacting with the devil, and this morning faces the punishment of hanging. Now he has a choice - stay silent and face his sentence; or submit a false confession to the court, perjuring himself and dirtying his honour but walking away with his life.

Which will John choose? His honour or his life?

Immerse yourself in this ★★★★★ ‘compelling… vital watch’ (Broadway World), directed by Ola Ince.

The Crucible plays in the Globe Theatre and must end 12 July 2025: https://bit.ly/TheCrucibleGlobe25

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QUOTES

00:00 I have three children. How may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I have sold my friends?
00:33 Tell them I confessed. Tell them, Proctor broke to his knees and wept like a woman.
00:56 Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life.
01:07 Because I lie, and sign myself to lies.
01:27 I have given you my soul! Leave me my name.
01:46 You will give me your honest confession, in my hand or I cannot save you from the rope.
02:27 Give them no tear. Show them a heart of stone and sink them with it.
02:37 There is another judgement waits us all.
02:45 Whoever weeps for these weeps for corruption.
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