All's Well That Ends Well

Name: All's Well That Ends Well
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780060743314

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Claire Bloom

Abridged: 2 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 12/27/2003

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.Desperately in love with Bertram, the son of a Spanish countess, Helena schemes with the virginal Diana to fulfill Bertram’s stipulations and win his love. As Bertram’s infidelity and Helena’s deceits are revealed, the estranged lovers reunite, but the audience is left to wonder if, in love, the end justifies the means.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin’s motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll’s House.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on August 16, 2019

I just can't bring myself to love this play, although I believe I understand what Shakespeare is doing here. He takes a fairy tale plot, adds a fiercely realistic setting (complete with a pointless war and friendly fire), adds a desperately mismatched romantic couple (Helena, a commoner and a contro......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on June 12, 2020

Helena he’s just not that into you......more

Goodreads review by Bram on July 11, 2011

Where can you go after writing Hamlet? Only into the bitterest depths of irony and nihilism, apparently. All’s Well That Ends Well is part of the problem play trilogy that followed soon after the Danish Prince’s demise and Malvolio’s humiliation, and it appears on the surface to be less twisted than......more