About this title: Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour in earlier centuries, and both directors and critics have frequently tried to avoid or simplify its uncomfortable elements. More recently, several distinguished productions have revealed it as an exceptionally penetrating study of both personal and social issues. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale university press; [etc., etc. ], New Haven
Date Published: 1926
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., 140 p. 18 cm. Contains facsimile reproduction of the title-page of the Elizabethan club copy of the first separate edition of "All's well that ends well, " London, 1734. The text is that of Craig's Oxford Shakespeare, with alterations. read more
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Sands & Co., London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1898
Description: Good. No Jacket. Pocket Falstaff Edition, pocket sized. Softcover, red leather with gold lettering and decoration; 5 3/4 inches (14.5 cm) tall; 115 pages; tight; no markings; slightly age-tanned; very minor wear inside; no dj; cover soiled and edgeworn. Many of the pages uncut hence book never read. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm), New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780671669232ISBN:0671669230
Description: Fine. 0671669230 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in like new condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. _ read more
Binding: Perfect Bound Paper
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. Small Trade Paperback. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Light wear. PON inside front wrap and a scribble on FEP. Binding tight, pages clean though old store price penciled on FEP. (Store Display-Shakespeare/Classics) read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Arden Shakespeare. read more
"Apparently, Helena lost her copy of He's Just Not That Into You.
Personally, I caught the film version several months ago and frankly strongest impression I gathered from that hour-and-a-half-I'll-never-get-back was a profound respect for Scarlet Johansen's resistance (or inability) to conform with the Hollywood starlet size zero standard. I mean no offense to anyone out there who may have enjoyed it, I was simply never a fan of Sex and the City or any of its little pop culture spin-offs.
However, after digesting William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, I am at last able to see some of the educational merit of a book/movie targeted toward the correction of desperate behaviors made by desperate women. (Complete review at www.whatrefuge.blogspot.com)"
"Helena cures the King from a sickness. He gives her the Bertram, the husband of her choice. Her husband ditches her after the wedding and goes to fight battles in Tuscany telling her until she has his ring and his child he will not be considered her husband. (Catch me if you can)! An OK story with some excellent one-liners."
"Lightweight, leave it behind edition of a play that is difficult to stage well. I took it to the Stratford Festival, read it, and left it behind, and the Festival had a hard time staging it well. Doesn't matter. The play fascinates. No one seems to understand that Shakespeare meant something different by "love" than what me mean. Getting his meaning helps the ending make sense. Bertram declares that he is changing allegiance, and that how he can make the claim of loving Helena more convincingly."
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