The Problem Play

The drama of social debate — Ibsen and Shaw putting marriage, money, and morality on trial before the audience.

Theater that argues

In this collection

• Genesis
• The Parisians, Book VIII
• The Surgeon Talks
• The Apple
• Aurora Floyd
• The Downfall of Mr. Jabez Stiffson
• The Soul of a Poet
• Ode to the Book II
• Divided
• The Weird Lady
• The Freshest Boy
• My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon
• Between the Hill and the Valley
• The Attendant Spirit, from Comus
• The Small Bachelor
• ‘Sent to his Death! '

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