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The Oxford Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Oxford Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends WellUsually 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 pr...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 14 August 2008
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Shakespeare Plays | Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
- ISBN 13: 9780199537129 ISBN 10: 0199537127
- Sales rank: 153,722
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Full description for The Oxford Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well
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. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible. She explains how the very discords of style can be seen as a source of theatrical power and complexity, and offers a fully reconsidered, helpfully annotated text for both readers and actors.
