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Gowher Ahmad Naik, LPU Unit 2: Literary Terms: Problem Play, Kitchen Sink Drama, and Angry Young Man

Unit 2: Literary Terms: Problem Play, Kitchen Notes
Sink Drama, and Angry Young Man

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
2.1 Problem Play

2.1.1 Origin of Problem Play
2.1.2 Definition of Problem Play
2.1.3 Shakespearen Problem Play

2.2 Kitchn Sink Drama

2.2.1 Origin of Kitchen Sink Drama
2.2.2 Definition of the Kitchen Sink Drama

2.2.3 Characteristics of Kitchen Sink Drama
2.2.4 Criticism of Kitchen Sink Drama

2.2.5 Examples of Kitchen Sink Drama
2.3 Angry Young Man

2.3.1 Meaning

2.3.2 Origin
2.4 Summary
2.5 Keywords

2.6 Review Questions

2.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain the literary term problem play;
• Understands kitchen sink drama;
• Elaborate the meaning and origin of the term angry young man;
• Elucidate that the term kitchen sink drama was enacted for the dramas related to family tensions;
• Illustrate that angry young man were a new breed of intellectuals of working class or of lower
middle-class origin.

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