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All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Fiction | Series: RSC Shakespeare
""A young man married is a man that's marr'd."" --All's Well That Ends Well Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic play about gender, desire, and sexual love. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
Desperately in love with Bertram, the son of a Spanish countess, Helena schemes with the virginal Diana to fulfill Bertram's stipulations and win his love. As Bertram's infidelity and Helena's deceits are revealed, the estranged lovers reunite, but the audience is left to wonder if, in love, the end jus ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Alexander Leggatt has written a new Introduction to this updated edition of Russell Fraser's text on one of Shakespeare's most ambiguous plays. Leggatt's interest in performance informs his introduction and account of the instability of the main characters. He offers a thoughtful account of the play's c ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
All's Well That End's Well by William Shakespeare; Virginia Grise (Translator)
Category: Plays | Series: Play on Shakespeare Ser.
This translation of Shakespeare's overlooked play will captivate contemporary readers. Virginia Grise takes on one of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays in her translation of All's Well That Ends Well. It is a play that has challenged actors, directors, and audiences for four-hundred years, and in this e ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction
Classified as one of William Shakespeare's 'problem plays' for its unique mix of comedy and tragedy, All's Well that Ends Well is a masterpiece of irony and subtle wit. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Barbara Everett with an introduction by Janette Dillon. 'All's well that ends well; still ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by Macaw Books (Adapted by); Richard Usher (Read by); William Shakespeare (Original Author)
Category: Childrens Classic Fiction | Series: 20 Shakespeare Children's Stories Ser.
Another one of Shakespeare's witty comedies, this play is woven around Helena, the orphaned daughter of a famous physician, and Bertram, the son of her guardian. Helena is in love with Bertram, but he does not return her feelings. Nevertheless, Helena uses her intelligence to win Bertram as her husband. ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Claire McEachern)
Category: Classic Fiction
With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts* High quality introductions ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well: Third Series by Suzanne Gossett William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623 Though originally the play was classified as a comedy, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, ...Show more
All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Film & Tv
A poor physician?s daughter cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Count of Rosillion, refuses to consummate the forced marriage and flees to Florence. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, Al ...Show more
Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare Stories) by William Shakespeare retold by Andrew Matthews
Category: Junior Fiction
A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra.
Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the play have seldom ...Show more