Synopsis
Reading Shakespeare should give you as much pleasure as seeing Shakespeare performed. The Two-Hour Tours book series produces editions of the plays that give readers the same thrilling experience that theatergoers enjoy.
We prepare you for each passage of each play by explaining unfamiliar terms and references in advance, and we present historical and cultural context to keep you oriented as you proceed. Just like a tour guide.
In the same way that performances of Shakespeare edit the script to deliver a sharpened experience, Two-Hour Tours edits out minor portions not central to the action, and comprehensively explains everything we present.
While side-by-side and line-by-line modern translations of Shakespeare are useful as resources, they can raise as many questions about Shakespeare’s original text as they answer. Two-Hour Tours is designed to give you the tools to follow Shakespeare’s writing, while providing a truly pleasurable reading experience.
So, if you want to encounter, or re-encounter, the central writer of the English language in a manner that’s pleasant, absorbing, and illuminating, Two-Hour Tours is for you. And for a list of our other titles, please click on the Jeremy Abrams author page, above.
In this Tour, of All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare presents a dark comedy which today we might call it a dramedy, but neither term captures the odd condition of the society it describes or Shakespeare’s clever use of a fairy-tale plot to bring its flesh-and-blood characters to life.
Shakespeare begins this play in medieval France amid a culture whose ethical and moral standards have fallen, and whose king is resigned to die of an illness he and his physicians consider incurable. Although honor and virtue are spoken of constantly, very little of either is exhibited, and there is as little will to restore the society to moral health as there is to restore the king to physical health.
Into this situation strides Helena, the orphaned daughter of a provincial court physician. She is on a quest to marry Bertram, a young aristocrat, and while she wins the king’s consent to the union, nobody has asked Bertram. Shakespeare portrays Bertram as thoroughly reprehensible, the kind of man that only a mother – and for some reason also Helena – could love.
Bertram runs off to war to avoid the new wife who has been forced upon him. The action shifts to Northern Italy in wartime, and that the same ethically questionable “bed trick” employed in Measure for Measure (a plot device that was common in Elizabethan drama) will play a role in the action, and in the dramatic reconciliation that ultimately occurs between them.
This is the eighth book in the "Two-Hour Tours of Shakespeare" series. If you like it, we certainly hope you will return for more.
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A Guided Tour of All's Well that Ends Well (Two-Hour Tours of Shakespeare)
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 161 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.41 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur zk1661273939
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