All's Well That Ends Well (Folger Shakespeare Library) -

William Shakespeare

Simon & Schuster

2005

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780743484978

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.

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"The initial question of 'All's Well That Ends Well' thus is: How can Helena be so massively wrong? You can salvage her bad judgment only by arguing that Bertran is immature, and will change, but Shakespeare indicates otherwise: this spoiled cad will grow up to be even more of a monster. The stubborn Helena triumphs, but only at her own expense, as the audience surely is compelled to conclude. With his uncanny mastery at representing women at least as persuasively as men, Shakespeare transforms the question into the much more interesting: who is Helena?"
Harold Bloom - Shakespeare: the invention of the human, c. 21