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Alls Well That Ends Well

By William ShakespeareNarrated by a full cast, Aisling Gray, Emma Faye, David Shears, P. J. Morgan, Marty Krz, John Burlinson, Denis Daly, Gary MacFadden, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray, Linda Barrans

Length2h 54m

About this audiobook

This play is a dramatization of Boccaccio’s story of Gillette of Narbonne. Only the comic parts were of Shakespeare’s invention; he added the characters of the pusillanimous Parolles, the lofty courtier Lafew, the Clown Lavatch, and the long suffering Countess. He gave new depth and vitality to the leading characters, who are mere outlines in Boccaccio’s tale. The comedy has for its heroine a young woman who loves the haughty Bertram with an unrequited and despised passion, cures the King of France of a dangerous sickness, claims as her reward the right to choose a husband from among the courtiers, chooses Bertram, is repudiated by him, and, after a nocturnal meeting at which she takes the place of another woman whom he believes himself to have seduced, at last overcomes his resistance and is acknowledged as his wife. In Helena, Shakespeare drew a portrait of familiar type of loving and cruelly maltreated womanhood—the woman who suffers everything in inexhaustible tenderness and humility, and never falters in her love until in the end she wins the rebellious heart.

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GenreLiterary Classics

Length2 hrs 54 mins

Narrated bya full cast, Aisling Gray, Emma Faye, David Shears, P. J. Morgan, Marty Krz, John Burlinson, Denis Daly, Gary MacFadden, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray, Linda Barrans

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateAug 8, 2023

LanguageEnglish

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.View all by William Shakespeare