ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

PLAY BY SAKESPEAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“All’s Well that Ends Well” is considered to be what kind of a play?
A
History
B
Comedy
C
Tragedy
D
Epic poem
Explanation: 

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: -A romantic comedy, yet with echoes of the much darker Measure for Measure, All’s Well that Ends Well belongs to its women. To its central character, Helena, and to her guardian and mother of her object of desire, the extraordinary Countess of Rossillion.

Detailed explanation-3: -used to say that a person can forget about how unpleasant or difficult something was because everything ended in a good way. We almost didn’t make it here, but all’s well that ends well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Proverb. all’s well that ends well. A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before.

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