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	Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among greatest in the English language and in Western literature.
		Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among greatest in the English language and in Western literature and cover the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy.
		As a result, Shakespeare and the playing companies he worked with did not distribute scripts of his plays, for fear that the plays would be stolen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakespeare's_plays (1501 words)

	Problem plays -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boas applied the term to plays in which the resolution of the themes and debates seems inadequate, and in the final act the deliverance of justice and completion one expects does not occur.
		Other definitions have followed, but all center on the fact that the plays cannot be easily assigned to the traditional categories of (Light and humorous drama with a happy ending) comedy or (Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity) tragedy.
		The three plays are also referred to as the dark (Click link for more info and facts about comedies) comedies, since despite ending on a generally happy note for the characters concerned, the darker, more profound issues raised cannot be fully resolved or ignored.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/problem_plays.htm (208 words)

	Problem plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term problem plays normally refers to three comedies that William Shakespeare wrote between about 1601 and 1603: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida, although some critics would extend the term to other plays.
		The problem plays are linked by their confusing tone, which shifts violently between dark, psychological drama and more straightforward comic material; All's Well and Measure contain happy endings that seem awkwardly artificial and perfunctory, while Troilus ends with neither a tragic death, nor a happy ending.
		Boas used the term for plays in which the resolution of the themes and debates seems inadequate, and in the final act the deliverance of justice and completion one expects does not occur.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Problem_play (316 words)

	William Shakespeare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shakespeare's plays tend to be placed into three main stylistic groups: his early comedies and histories (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, Part 1), his middle period (which includes his most famous tragedies, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear), and his later romances (such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest).
		In addition, the fact that Shakespeare did not produce an authoritative print version of his plays during his life accounts for part of the textual problem often noted with his plays, which means that for several of the plays there are different textual versions.
		These plays, which blend piety with farce and slapstick, were allegories in which the characters are personified moral attributes who validate the virtues of Godly life by prompting the protagonist to choose such a life over evil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakespeare (2673 words)

	Tragedy's Problem
		It is not necessary for a problem play to be considered a problem play just because it was not written in the time period of when problem plays were formed.
		Problem plays suggest major personal, social, political or professional issues in which each problem is timely, realistic and a character experiences these situations in real places and the problems have real outcomes.
		The play is a tragedy in that Willy Loman dies, but the traditional tragic play includes a death of an archaic, highly ranked person, and Willy, a common man, does not necessarily fit into the category of tragic hero, which makes Death of a Salesman a problem play.
	goinside.com /01/9/tragedy.html (1061 words)

	Black comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Writers such as Terry Southern, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Harlan Ellison and Eric Nicol have written and published novels, stories and plays where profound or horrific events were portrayed in a comic manner.
		Strangelove plays the subject for laughs; for example, in the film, the fail-safe procedures designed to prevent a nuclear war are precisely the systems that ensure that it will happen.
		Arsenic and Old Lace is about a pair of murdering old aunts discovered by their nephew, played by Cary Grant.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_comedy (1305 words)

	ISP: MFM: Essays: Shakespeare's Problem Plays
		All the Problem Plays are profoundly concerned with seeming and being; and this can cover both sex and human worth (each claiming nobility).
		Notes on Ernest Schanzer, The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of "Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, and Antony and Cleopatra" (London, 1963).
		What seems needed as well in a problem play is a concern with a central moral problem, which will inevitably take the form of an act of choice confronting the protagonist, and in relation to which we are in doubt of our moral bearings" (p.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/essays/1_3_problemplays.html (915 words)

	Glenbrook South Physics - Internet Problem Sets
		Students would solve their problems (or have others do the solving for them) and would wait (with not a whole lot of anxiety) until the following day of class to see if they were correct.
		The load of problems was often so great that the possibility of collecting the work, grading it with some degree of attention, and returning it to students in a reasonable amount of time was neither practical nor possible.
		As was the case, student ownership of their problems and student accountability was low and student learning was slim if present at all.
	www.glenbrook.k12.il.us /gbssci/phys/intprobs (1963 words)

	Acadia Distance Education: English 2193-Shakespeare 2, Problem Plays 2
		W.W. Lawrence in 1931 described the "problem comedies" as a genre in which "a perplexing and distressing complication in human life is presented in a spirit of high seriousness." In addition, "the theme is handled so as...
		The play is darkly satiricial in its anatomy of social issues.
		as editors of the play have been forced to notice, critical problems in dealing with the play are exacerbated by the fact that at some stage prior to its first publication in 1623, the text of the play may have been revised in some way.
	conted-aux.acadiau.ca /conted/courses/public/engl2193/shprobs2.html (922 words)

	problem play -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The technical formula of the well-made play, developed around 1825 by the French playwright Eugène Scribe, called for complex and highly artificial plotting, a build-up of suspense, a climactic scene in which...
		One of the world's outstanding dramatists, Calderón wrote plays that were as effective in the public playhouses as in the newly built court theatre of Buen Retiro.
		French author Alexandre Dumas was a founder of the “problem play,” a realistic drama advocating reforms for contemporary social problems.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061459?tocId=9061459 (1069 words)

	"Positive African American Plays For Children"
		If you are planning a children's play or workshop for children, you probably had a problem finding plays children would enjoy, just like we did.
		The author of this incredible play kit began writing plays while working with a small group of African American children during her work in a community outreach program.
		Realizing the children were not responding well to old traditional children plays, she decided to write plays with 100% input from the children.
	www.africanamericanchildrenplays.com (1783 words)

	Why Those Darn Training Problems Won't Go Away: A Look at the Politics of Training
		Despite plenty of evidence to the effect that most so-called "training" problems are really problems of feedback, or consequences, or expectations, or of the design of the work itself, or simply a case of having the wrong tool for the job at hand, problems bearing the label "training" keep cropping up.
		The role played by the problem label, then, is to fix the locus of the problem and the focus of the effort to solve it.
		If a problem is labeled too soon, those working on it run the risk of invoking the wrong frame of reference and they might find it difficult to shake off this set of referents later on.
	home.att.net /~nickols/darnprob.htm (2025 words)

	Drama Authors in Depth - Henrik Ibsen - Meyer Literature
		Ibsen, having directed a number of Scribe’s plays in Norway, knew their cause-to-effect plot arrangements and used them for his own purposes in his problem plays.
		Ibsen’s most famous play, A Doll House, dramatizes the tensions of a nineteenth-century middle-class marriage in which a wife struggles to step beyond the limited identity imposed on her by her husband and society.
		Premieres the one-act play, The Warrior’s Barrow, in Oslo
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/authors_depth/ibsen.htm (454 words)

	Theater News - Feature: Jewish Problem Plays - Adam Klasfeld examines some of the challenging plays about Jewish lives ...
		That's because the "balcony" of this play is not similar to that of Broadway's other female leader, Eva Peron; rather, the title refers to the stockpile of plutonium bombs, located under the Negev desert, that the prime minister authorized as a doomsday defense against surrounding countries.
		Tovah Feldshuh plays the title role with an uncompromising lack of sentiment; if this Golda is a maternal figure, she is an Earth Mother with the potential to destroy as well as create.
		The body of the play, told in flashback, is meant to reveal how this nice English girl name Lemon adopted such views from her Aunt Dan, a power-obsessed American who lusts after Henry Kissinger and has an affair with a covert assassin.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4659 (2269 words)

	Shotgun Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shakespeare's plays tend to be organized into four categories: the comedies, the tragedies, the histories, and the problem plays.
		Most of the humor in this play is mined by Reid Davis and Clive Worsley; the two redefine the word "ooze" in their portrayals of competing grotesques Pandarus and Thersites.
		Rica Anderson plays a quite slutty Helen, Alan Quismorio is the scampering mimic Patroclus, and John Thomas plays an imposing Aeneas.
	www.shotgunplayers.org /archive/seas11/troilus/review_EBX.cfm (1174 words)

	Tragedy
		The problem play or play of ideas usually has a tragic ending.
		The driving force behind the play is the exploration of some social problem, like alcoholism or prostitution; the characters are used as examples of the general problem.
		Frequently the playwright views the problem and its solution in a way that defies or rejects the conventional view; not surprisingly, some problem plays have aroused anger and controversy in audiences and critics.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/tragedy.html (722 words)

	How Misconcetpions Affect Formal Physics Problem Solving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Figure 1a shows a problem that is exemplary for the problems which have frequently been taken advantage of by investigators of misconceptions in physics (e.g., Clement, 1982; McCloskey, 1983).
		Since the impetus concept could be applied to each of these problems, they are of special interest with respect to the question of how students' misconceptions affect their performance in formal problem solving.
		As predicted by the model, in most of the cases, subjects who applied an impetus concept encountered severe difficulties in their problem solving attempts exactly when the results of their (incorrect) qualitative problem analyses had to be coordinated with the use of their quantitative physics knowledge.
	www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de /signatures/ploetz/papers/cogsci.95.html (2820 words)

	Shakespearean Comedy
		These two plays have many things in common where as Measure for Measure is a problem play with a totally different tone.
		Since he is causing problems in his daughters life by trying to make her marry Demetrius, this begins the journey into the woods.
		As the play nears the end, Oberon lifts the spell and everyone seems to believe they have had a rare vision and then their lives go on just as if none of this had happened.
	www.field-of-themes.com /shakespeare/essays/Ecomedy.htm (2265 words)

	The UVic Writer's Guide: Problem Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In problem plays, the conflicts of the protagonists arise from contemporary social problems.
		The play deals with the hypocrisy of capitalist society that morally condemns prostitution while driving women to resort to it out of economic necessity.
		The term is also used for a group of Shakespeare's plays (including Measure for Measure (1604) and All's Well That Ends Well (1602-04)) which are particularly ambiguous in their mingling of noble and evil qualities of human nature, and in which the final resolution of the action can be seen as problematic.
	web.uvic.ca /wguide/Pages/LTProbPlay.html (180 words)

	Curriculum Theory: Problem Generation
		In our model, Problem Generation plays a critical role in defining the area of research and developing the degree of interest needed to motivate students during their teacher-led inquiry and learning activities.Essentially, we break the problem generation phase down into three components:
		We have found that each class does the Problem Generation activity slightly differently but here we offer what seems to be a simple description of the activity and encourage other teachers to experiment with this methodology and see what works best for them.
		We generally find that upon a second viewing, the children's amount of problems increase substantially in both number and quality sine they have a much better idea of the task.The class breaks up into smaller groups and begins to better define the problems as well as start the categorization process.
	www.edb.utexas.edu /missiontomars/problem.html (350 words)

	MLK Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To those without health care this problem plays a very strong role in thier lives.
		With just that one fact and thought in mind I left the lecture realizing that I always knew there were many issues and problems like such in society for minorities but I never truly realized how large of a problem it is. This is because I never expierienced it full hand.
		It brought me to reality with all of the problems and issues millions of minorites face each day, and it made me realized that with out truly expierencing a problem full hand I will never really feel the problem it is for others.
	www.siena.edu /boswell/_disc10/00000001.htm (176 words)

	SUNY Press :: Eternal Bonds, True Contracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Contracts, bonds, sureties, wills—all ensure a changed relationship between parties, and in Shakespeare the terms are nearly always reserved for use in the contexts of marriage and fellowship.
		Harmon's study ultimately enables the reader to perceive not only these plays but also all of Shakespeare's writing—including his poetry—as integral with, and implicated in, the proliferating legalism that was helping to define early modern English culture.
		The plays are shown to be immersed in the legal culture rather than merely gesturing toward it.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=60948 (406 words)

	Not their problem - The Washington Times: Entertainment - November 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this comedy, you can see Shakespeare's first attempt at a "trouser role" (a female character dressing up like a man in order to be with her beloved), as well an early example of his penchant for mingling a goofy love story with discourses on the nature of male friendship.
		Many of the play's flaws are adroitly neutralized by having talented actors like Miss Twyford — along with Lucy Newman-Williams and Kate Eastwood Norris — playing the "minor" roles of servants, outlaws and codgers.
		The family is separated for 14 years, during which Pericles becomes increasingly badly groomed and depressed, Thaisa is resuscitated by an alchemist priestess (Sarah Marshall), and Marina (Marguerite Stimpson) goes from the privileged household of her childhood to a brothel, where she sways all of her potential clients away from a life of bawd.
	washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20041117-113115-2326r (1530 words)

	William Babula's Shakespeare Site
		W 4/27 AS YOU LIKE IT While these plays will all be put in historical context, we will also examine the way our own culture, depending on the times, shapes film and stage presentations of Shakespeare’s works.
		All of these plays will be examined as part of Shakespeare’s development as a playwright.
		Extensive scenes and full productions of all of the plays will be shown on video to help further everyone’s understanding of the plays as works to be staged.
	www.sonoma.edu /users/b/babula/Intersession.htm (136 words)

	SHAKESPEARE'S PROBLEM PLAYS
		They [the problem plays] have another important themes or terms in common, and all have some echo or parallel in Hamlet.
		All the Problem Plays are profoundly concerned with seeming and being; and this can cover both sex and human worth (each claiming nobility).
		"In watching a problem play our predominant state of mind during at least part of the action is one of doubt of our moral bearings.
	www.wiu.edu /users/mfdlc/pplays.htm (790 words)

	Problem marriages
		Measure for Measure is considered a "problem play," along with Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well.
		Though structured like the comedies (and often grouped with them), the problem plays are darker and more cynical.
		Most notorious in the plot of the play is the "bed-trick" where Mariana is substituted for Isabella in Angelo's bed.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLTnoframes/plays/mmmarriage.html (160 words)

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