7.10.2004
All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Overall Grade: C
All in all, a pretty decent comedic play from the Bard. The whole figuring-out-who-did-what at the end was a little hard to buy, but it served its purpose. Also, I did not know that this oft-used phrase was attributed to Shakespeare. Basic plot, daughter of dead physician uses father's medicine to cure the king, who in returns grants her request to pick her husband from his court. She, of course, picks the count she's been crushing on but who could never love a mere doctor's daughter. They are married, but he runs off to a war in Italy without consummating the marriage. Somehow, she gets to Italy too & manages to bed him with some trickery. In the end, she "miraculously" returns from the dead, pregnant with the Count's child, & he sudden becomes repentant. Hmm...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Overall Grade: C
All in all, a pretty decent comedic play from the Bard. The whole figuring-out-who-did-what at the end was a little hard to buy, but it served its purpose. Also, I did not know that this oft-used phrase was attributed to Shakespeare. Basic plot, daughter of dead physician uses father's medicine to cure the king, who in returns grants her request to pick her husband from his court. She, of course, picks the count she's been crushing on but who could never love a mere doctor's daughter. They are married, but he runs off to a war in Italy without consummating the marriage. Somehow, she gets to Italy too & manages to bed him with some trickery. In the end, she "miraculously" returns from the dead, pregnant with the Count's child, & he sudden becomes repentant. Hmm...
Labels: genre: fiction, media: book, media: play
