LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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All’s Well that Ends Well
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Hamlet
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Timon of Athens
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Detailed explanation-1: -All’s Well That Ends Well is a romance comedy. It is also classified as one of three of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” (along with Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida) because it presents as heroes or heroines characters who are seriously flawed in some way.
Detailed explanation-2: -We almost didn’t make it here, but all’s well that ends well.
Detailed explanation-3: -TL; DR (may contain spoilers): Helen saves the King’s life, he gives her his son to marry, who runs away from her, and she tricks him into impregnating her. Everything ends happily.
Detailed explanation-4: -Set in France and Italy, All’s Well That Ends Well is a story of one-sided romance, based on a tale from Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Helen, the orphaned daughter of a doctor, is under the protection of the widowed Countess of Rossillion.
Detailed explanation-5: -All’s Well That Ends Well, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1601–05 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from a theatrical playbook that still retained certain authorial features or from a literary transcript either of the playbook or of an authorial manuscript.