All's Well that Ends Well (updated ed.)

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by William Shakespeare,

Edited by Russell Fraser,

Introduction by Alexander Leggatt

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published November 2003, 174 pages, paper

ISBN 0521535158

For this updated edition of All's Well, Alexander Leggatt has written a wholly new Introduction to one of Shakespeare's most puzzling, ambiguous and demanding plays. Leggatt's interest in performance informs his introduction and his account of the instability of the main characters. He offers a full, illustrated and thoughtful account of the play's critical and theatrical fortunes to the end of the twentieth century, and of our experience as an audience of seeing and hearing it performed. An updated reading list completes the edition. 11 half-tones

 Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction by Alexander Leggatt: Sources and traditions
The Shakespearean context (and the date)
Critical reception and stage history
The play
Note on the text
List of characters

THE PLAY

Textual analysis
Reading list