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A review by gsanta1
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
3.0
Only in a Shakespeare comedy can the abandoning of a wife, and the coercing of a pregnancy/rape be absolved and forgiven and forgotten at the end.
There’s two plots here: Helena and Bertram, and revealing Parolles.
You can cut out the clown parts. They’re irrelevant and distracting.
I like the play mostly because there’s a pregnancy outside of marriage. But it’s alright because it’s his wife in disguise. Nice loophole!
It has a nice plot idea. The girl marries the guy in the beginning but this time he doesn’t want to get married. Sure, why not!
Every Shakespeare play seems to need secret information and a ploy. So Helena’s plotline has one and so does the Parolles plotline.
The Parolles plotline is supposed to be the comedic plot line, but it’s not funny anymore.
The widow and diana don’t make much sense and what a wild coincidence, but they serve a purpose.
I don’t understand Bertram at the end, but I don’t think Shakespeare cared.
Maybe you’ll enjoy Helena’s vigor and gumption.
Bertram’s problem is more complex but Shakespeare doesn’t explore it.
Honestly, I can’t remember any lines. There’s no philosophizing or ruminating of any kind. No great sweeping condemnation of husbands or wife or men or women or thoughts on fast friends or fickle kings.
The Countess and King each have a one line or two about time, but that’s it.
No clever puns or wordplay neither.
No euphemisms nor metaphors nor allusions.
There’s two plots here: Helena and Bertram, and revealing Parolles.
You can cut out the clown parts. They’re irrelevant and distracting.
I like the play mostly because there’s a pregnancy outside of marriage. But it’s alright because it’s his wife in disguise. Nice loophole!
It has a nice plot idea. The girl marries the guy in the beginning but this time he doesn’t want to get married. Sure, why not!
Every Shakespeare play seems to need secret information and a ploy. So Helena’s plotline has one and so does the Parolles plotline.
The Parolles plotline is supposed to be the comedic plot line, but it’s not funny anymore.
The widow and diana don’t make much sense and what a wild coincidence, but they serve a purpose.
I don’t understand Bertram at the end, but I don’t think Shakespeare cared.
Maybe you’ll enjoy Helena’s vigor and gumption.
Bertram’s problem is more complex but Shakespeare doesn’t explore it.
Honestly, I can’t remember any lines. There’s no philosophizing or ruminating of any kind. No great sweeping condemnation of husbands or wife or men or women or thoughts on fast friends or fickle kings.
The Countess and King each have a one line or two about time, but that’s it.
No clever puns or wordplay neither.
No euphemisms nor metaphors nor allusions.