Wednesday, November 23, 2011

All's Well That Ends Well

1606-1607
Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well
D-

As with Measure for Measure, a "light" title hides a darker play that involves bed-partner substitution, along with other questionable material.  AWTEW is worse because we're actually supposed to be rooting for not very sympathetic Helena and totally unsympathetic Bertram to get together.  Helena is sort of a female doctor but lacks the cleverness of Merchant of Venice's "lawyer" Portia.

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