Study Guide: Doubt: A Parable

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Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play, A Parable takes place in a Catholic school in the Bronx in the late 1960s. The play explores themes of innocence and suspicion as principal Sister Aloysius begins to have doubts about an inappropriate relationship between a priest, Father Flynn, and a young male student.

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