All's Well That Ends Well (Vol. 26) | Joseph G. Price (essay date 1968)
Joseph G. Price (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "The Director and the Search for Unity" and "All's Well in America and in the Minor Theatres," The Unfortunate Comedy: A Study of All's Well That Ends Well and Its Critics, University of Toronto Press, 1968, 43-72.
[In the following excerpt, Price examines the stage history of All's Well That Ends Well in the twentieth century, maintaining that it is characterized by "the attempts of directors to thread the brilliant parts with a unifying, appealing theme." The critic further discusses productions in America and the minor theaters between the years 1799 and 1964.]
A Statistical summary of the theatrical history of All's Well that Ends Well prior to the twentieth century offers little encouragement to the modern producer. We have no record of a production in Shakespeare's time nor in the entire seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, the theatres of London presented...
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