All's Well That Ends Well (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) -

William Shakespeare

Cambridge University Press

2004

174 páginas

5h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780521535151

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations.

For the second edition of All's Well That Ends Well, Alexander Leggatt has written a completely new introduction to Russell Fraser's text of one of Shakespeare's most puzzling, ambiguous and demanding plays. Leggatt's interest in performance is evident throughout the introduction, particularly in his discussion of the instability of the main characters. He also provides a full, illustrated and thoughtful account of the play's critical and theatrical fortunes to the end of the twentieth century, and explores our experience as an audience of seeing and hearing the play performed. An updated reading list completes the volume.

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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