The literary scholar F.S. Boas used the term Problem Plays (9D) to refer to a group of Shakespearean plays which seem to contain both comic and tragic elements: Measure for Measure (12/36), All’s Well That Ends Well (39/1) and Troilus and Cressida (21/22).
First prize J. Bielawski, Southport
Runners-up Alastair Aberdare, London SW13; Jeffrey Frankland, Storth, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
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