A review by krupagrace
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

4.0

It is a comedy, I dare not say, the introduction deems it a romantic comedy, but I would say it is a romantic dark comedy. I found no romance in the book, just the sheer will of one desperate woman clever enough to make her way.
Helen/Helena a clever and resourceful young maiden, yet ill-endowed by the providence is a ward of the Countess Rossilion who artfully claims she is her mother. Helen is a hopeless romantic and desperately in love with her master Count Bertram, quite renowned for his love of virgins. He is the quintessential bad boy, yet so young. Helena, aware of her situation in life secures the blessing for the King of France to have a husband of her choice. Bertram, devasted at the opportunity presented to him, vows to never accept his wife and instead pursue war, but before presenting an impossible condition to Helena, bear him a child and possess his ring. Helena ever clever and intelligent plays on the follies of the callous man to secure her husband once and for all. Happy ending I guess. Or not.

The play has most funniest dialogue on virginity I have ever come across.