All's Well That Ends Well | Endings
In this essay, Gerard Gross traces the events of the play leading up to its conclusion, especially emphasizing how we must have some sense of progress in the love between Helena and Bertram if we are to understand the end of the play.
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together: Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipt them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues.
First Lord
The title of All's Well That Ends Well, a title which epitomizes comic or romantic endings, invites us to pay special attention to the ending of this play, to examine it against the norm of comic ending. Some critics take the sense of the tide at face value, and believe with Hazelton Spencer that all does indeed end well, that "the play's title...
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