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There is no evidence that All's Well That Ends Well was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism. Helena's love for the seemingly unlovable Bertram is difficult to explain on the page ...
Yet All’s Well That Ends Well remains one of Shakespeare’s less popular plays, neither widely studied nor staged. Indeed, the first recorded performance is not until 1741, and even on the rare occasions when it was performed it wasn’t really staged at all, at least in its original form, since it was repackaged as a farce with Parolles as ...
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‘All’s well that ends well’ has to be one of the oldest of the well-known proverbs. And it’s older than Shakespeare, who did indeed use it for his ‘problem play’, All’s Well That Ends Well , in the early seventeenth century (although some scholars put the date of composition as early as 1598).
A Modern Perspective: All’s Well That Ends Well. By David McCandless. On the simplest narrative level, All’s Well That Ends Well is a play about a formidably obsessed young woman pursuing a truculently resistant young man.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper. All’s Well That Ends Well, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1601–05 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from a theatrical playbook that still retained certain authorial features or from a literary transcript either of the playbook or ...
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William Shakespeare Set in France and Italy, All's Well That Ends Well is a story of one-sided romance, based on a tale from Boccaccio's The Decameron. About the Play
By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. All’s Well That Ends Well is, like so many of Shakespeare’s comedies, about a young woman and a young man. Yet All’s Well is in many ways Helen’s story.
