All's Well That Ends Well (Vol. 26) | Joseph G. Price (essay date 1968)
Joseph G. Price (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "Parolles and Farce" and "The Kemble Text: Sentiment and Decency," in The Unfortunate Comedy: A Study of All's Well That Ends Well and Its Critics, University of Toronto Press, 1968, pp. 3-42.
[Focusing on the early stage history of All's Well That Ends Well, Price examines eighteenth-century approaches to the character of Parolles and the play's comic elements. The critic further explores the impact in the theater of J. P. Kemble's 1793 adaptation of the text.]
Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well probably was written and first acted between 1601 and 1604. There is no record of a subsequent production until 1741. A gap of approximately a century and a half in the production of a Shakespearian play may seem startling to the modern reader who, in the past fifteen years, has had opportunity to see the entire canon on the stages of Shakespearian repertory companies. But the gap is...
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