Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1836 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Problem Play
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The idea
A problem play puts a social question on stage and argues it through the characters. The glossary has no headword. Shaw's work is the standard English example, and the form is where unit twelve's rhetorical apparatus meets unit thirteen's dramatic one.
In practice
A social question, argued on stage.
Where people slip
Two units' apparatus meet here.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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