All's Well, That Ends Well
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All's Well, That Ends Well

New Critical Essays

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eBook - ePub

All's Well, That Ends Well

New Critical Essays

About this book

Described as one of Shakespeare's most intriguing plays, All's Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare's career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and presents a broad range of approaches to it, including historical, feminist, performative and psychoanalytical criticisms.

In addition to fourteen essays written by leading scholars, the editor's introduction provides a substantial overview of the play's critical history, with a strong focus on performance analysis and the impact that this has had on its reception and reputation. Demonstrating a variety of approaches to the play and furthering recent debates, this book makes a valuable contribution to Shakespeare criticism.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781135872076
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Shakespeare Criticism
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. General Editor’s Introduction
  6. List of Figures and Acknowledgments
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. From “the Unfortunate Comedy” to “this Infinitely Fascinating Play”: The critical and theatrical emergence of All’s Well, That Ends Well
  10. Revising the Sources: Novella, Romance, and the Meanings of Fiction in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  11. “As Sweet as Sharp”: Helena and the fairy bride tradition
  12. Tying the (K)not: The marriage of tragedy and comedy in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  13. All’s Well, That Ends Well and the Art of Retrograde Motion
  14. Performing Woman: Female theatricality in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  15. “To make the ‘not’ eternal”: Female eloquence and patriarchal authority in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  16. Shakespeare’s Miracle Play?: Religion in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  17. She is in the Right: Biblical maternity and All’s Well, That Ends Well
  18. “The credit of your father”: Absent Fathers in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  19. “’Twas mine, ‘twas Helen’s”: Rings of desire in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  20. “Sweet Practicer, thy Physic I will try”: Helena and her “Good Receipt” in All’s Well, That Ends Well
  21. All’s Well, That Ends Well and the 1604 Controversy Concerning the Court of Wards and Liveries
  22. Playing it Accordingly: Parolles and Shakespeare’s knee-crooking knaves
  23. All’s Well as Television: The 1980 Moshinsky production
  24. Appendix
  25. Select Bibliography