Tag: Problem Plays

Literature

A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) George Bernard Shaw held All’s Well That Ends Well in high regard, having what Frank Kermode described as a ‘perverse’ admiration for it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called Helena, the heroine of All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare’s ‘loveliest character’ while the Victorian actress Ellen […]