id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8706 Shakespearean problem play - Wikipedia .html text/html 2063 308 73 Some critics include other plays, most commonly The Winter's Tale, Timon of Athens, and The Merchant of Venice.[2] The term has been variously applied to other odd plays from different points in Shakespeare's career, as the notion of a problem-play has always been somewhat vaguely defined and is not accepted by all critics. Boas himself lists the first three plays and adds that Hamlet links Shakespeare's problem-plays to his unambiguous tragedies.[3] For Boas, this modern form of drama provided a useful model with which to study works by Shakespeare that had previously seemed uneasily situated between the comic and the tragic; nominally two of the three plays identified by Boas are comedies, while the third, Troilus and Cressida, is found amongst the tragedies in the First Folio, although it is not listed in the Catalogue (table of contents) of the First Folio. The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8706.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8706.txt