All Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare Books
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All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy. It was probably written in later middle part of Shakespeare's career, between 1601 and 1608, and was first published in the First Folio in 1623. The name of the play comes from the proverb All's well that ends well, which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
All Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare Books
As you would expect from Oxford, this is a very well done edition of the play, with a comprehensive introduction (though I wished for a little more theatre history myself) that covers the major issues in this "problem" comedy (though it is not nearly so much a problem play as, say, Troilus and Cressida, in fact being much closer in many ways to Measure for Measure), several textual appendices, an index, useful textual- and foot-notes (there seem to be a great many phrasings in this play that need explanation--a result of revision?), and two of Shakespeare's direct sources in Erasmus and Painter. There were a few points when I disagreed with the interpreations offered in the footnotes, but overall, the apparatus is excellent.As for the play itself, the main action concerns the efforts of Helen to recapture her husband Bertram, who is given to her by the King as a reward for curing his fistula. He does not think she, as a physician's daughter, is worthy of his station and flees to the wars in Italy without consumating the marriage. The comic subplot involves the exposure of the cowardice of his companion, Paroles. Helen evnetually fulfills the requirements Bertram sets out in a letter--to obtain his ring and bear a child by him--through a bed trick, and the play ends where it began, with the King (echoes of Lear?) offering Diana, who helped in the trick, her choice of husband.
Overall, a very good edition of a less popular play.
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All Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare Books Reviews
This book tricked me. It was not Shakespeare even though it said it was.
The cream of the crop
I ordered this digital book because it was advertised as an Annotated "All's Well that Ends Well". However, when I got it there were absolutely no annotations.
This text is an 1815 book that was created personally for a patron of the theater, John Miller, 25 Bow-Street, Covent-Gardens. (The address is printed on the second page along with year). It was crafted by J.P. Kemble who has a Wikipedia page if you wish to verify any information that I supply. It was published by "The Theaters Royal." The text is identical with "All's Well That Ends Well" from the Arden Shakespeare collection. In today's world productions such as Kenneth Branagh-(AS You Like It) or Baz Luhrmann's Portrayal of "Romeo & Juliet can deviate from the original text's but almost never in text form therefore a 200 year old book is meant to collect dust so keep any collectable text in plastic with a dehumidifier pouch. Just for the record, I was asked to review this unique item which should be obvious since I am a student of Shakespeare, a published writer of music but I am not a reviewer-especially any deviation in book text of Shakespeare. In short, look for this one of a kind item which you can find by painstakingly scanning the 1000's of Shakespeare text on . Then contact the seller to make sure that the text is not a reprint. Good luck, Craig Barr.
I needed to digest this play before seeing a performance of it. As there are not too many options for this work available, I ordered this after reading the posted reviews of this series. Listening to it reminded me of radio drama (when that medium had such fare) and of how powerful just the spoken word can be. I followed along with a downloaded text and it was a virtually 'effortless' experience. The reviews are of a mind on this and I with them. Looking forward to hearing some others.
A notoriously difficult play, textually, and one that is not well served by annotated editions. I first went, as I usually do, to the Arden, edited by GK Hunter, and found the annotations impenetrable and often irrelevant and occasionally wrong and sometimes very unhelpful. But this edition shines some light on both the text and the structure of the play and provides straightforward glosses on words no longer used as they were when Shakespeare wrote. It benefits too from a scene by scene plot summary.
This is a review of the edition only. and the publisher should be ashamed of themselves for releasing a work with such shoddy formatting. Strangely, verse dialogue is correctly formatted, but prose dialogue is not, which renders this edition unreadable. I still want a copy because of the clarity and value of Jonathan Bate's notes, comments, and glosses, but for the average reader, DO NOT BUY THIS. Here is what the first few lines look like on or App, regardless of how you set the font size
COUNTESS In delivering my sone from me, I bury a
second
husband.
BERTRAM And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's
death
anew; but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom
I
am now in ward, evermore in subjection.
SHAMEFUL!!!
As you would expect from Oxford, this is a very well done edition of the play, with a comprehensive introduction (though I wished for a little more theatre history myself) that covers the major issues in this "problem" comedy (though it is not nearly so much a problem play as, say, Troilus and Cressida, in fact being much closer in many ways to Measure for Measure), several textual appendices, an index, useful textual- and foot-notes (there seem to be a great many phrasings in this play that need explanation--a result of revision?), and two of Shakespeare's direct sources in Erasmus and Painter. There were a few points when I disagreed with the interpreations offered in the footnotes, but overall, the apparatus is excellent.
As for the play itself, the main action concerns the efforts of Helen to recapture her husband Bertram, who is given to her by the King as a reward for curing his fistula. He does not think she, as a physician's daughter, is worthy of his station and flees to the wars in Italy without consumating the marriage. The comic subplot involves the exposure of the cowardice of his companion, Paroles. Helen evnetually fulfills the requirements Bertram sets out in a letter--to obtain his ring and bear a child by him--through a bed trick, and the play ends where it began, with the King (echoes of Lear?) offering Diana, who helped in the trick, her choice of husband.
Overall, a very good edition of a less popular play.
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