Asp, Carolyn. “Subjectivity, Desire and Female Friendship in All's Well That Ends Well.” Literature and Psychology XXXII, No. 4 (1986): 48-63.

Employs psychoanalytic theory to assess the effects of Helena's sexual desire on the patriarchal order of All's Well That Ends Well.

Friedman, Michael D. “Male Bonds and Marriage in All's Well and Much Ado.” In Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 35, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 231-49.

Considers male bonding in All's Well That Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing as it relates to audience perceptions of Bertram and gender issues in the plays.

———. “‘Service Is No Heritage’: Bertram and the Ideology of Procreation.” Studies in Philology 92, No. 1 (Winter 1995): 80-93.

Explores ideological conflicts between individual desire and social consequence in regard to Bertram's conduct in All's Well That Ends Well.

Haley, David. Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well That Ends Well. Cranbury, N. J.: Associated University Presses, 1993, 314 p.

Principally argues that in All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare presents “a dialectic between prudence and Providence.”

Hillman, Richard. “All's Well That Ends Well.” In William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays, pp. 54-91. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.

Analyzes Helena's love relationship with Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well, particularly focusing on the interplay of sexuality and power, and affinities between Helena's romantic plot and Hamlet's love for Ophelia in Hamlet.

Hodgdon, Barbara. “The Making of Virgins and Mothers: Sexual Signs, Substitute Scenes and Doubled Presences in All's Well That Ends Well.” Philological Quarterly 66, No. 1 (Winter 1987): 47-71.

Evaluates Helena's internal sexual drama in All's Well That Ends Well.

Hunt, Maurice. “Words and Deeds in All's Well That Ends Well.” Modern Language Quarterly 48, No. 4 (December 1987): 320-38.

Probes the problem of matching words to actions in All's Well That Ends Well.

Leggatt, Alexander. “All's Well That Ends Well: The Testing of Romance.” Modern Language Quarterly 32, No. 1 (March 1971): 21-41.

Investigates tensions between dramatic modes of romance and realism in All's Well That Ends Well as they are represented in the figures of Helena and Bertram, respectively.

Mukherji, Subha. “‘Lawful Deed’: Consummation, Custom, and Law in All's Well That Ends Well.” Shakespeare Survey 49 (1996): 181-200.

Studies All's Well That Ends Well in terms of Renaissance marriage laws and Christian interpretations of marriage and divorce.

Neely, Carol Thomas. “Power and Virginity in the Problem Comedies: All's Well That Ends Well.” In Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays, pp. 58-104. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.

Discusses sexuality as the central element of All's Well That Ends Well, arguing that, despite many unresolved issues in the work, Shakespeare's treatment of this subject expands the boundaries of comedy.

Price, John Edward. “Anti-moralistic Moralism in All's Well That Ends Well.” Shakespeare Studies XII (1979): 95-111.

Focuses on patterns of dominance and subservience and the juxtaposition of vital youth and moribund old age in All's Well That Ends Well.

Schork, R. J. “The Many Masks of Parolles.” In Philological Quarterly 76, No. 3 (Summer 1997): 263-69.

Surveys Parolles as an amalgamation of the stock roles of braggart warrior, parasite, and pimp from Latin New Comedy.

Simpson, Lynne M. “The Failure to Mourn in All's Well That Ends Well.” Shakespeare Studies 22 (1994): 172-88.

Traces the thematic implications of Helena's inability to mourn her dead father in All's Well That Ends Well.

Snyder, Susan. “All's Well That Ends Well and Shakespeare's Helens: Text and Subtext, Subject and Object.” English Literary Renaissance 18, No. 1 (Winter 1988): 66-77.

Discusses the disjunctions, silences, and unexpected connections in language and plot that culminate in the ambiguous ending of All's Well That Ends Well.

Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr. “‘Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her’: Forgetting, Memory, and Identity in All's Well That Ends Well.” Shakespeare Quarterly 50, No. 1 (Spring 1999): 51-69.

Applies several conceptions of memory and forgetting to All's Well That Ends Well as a means of approaching the play's failure to achieve a comic resolution.

Thomas, Vivian, “Virtue and Honour in All's Well That Ends Well.” In The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays, pp. 140-72. London: Croom Helm, 1987.

Interprets All's Well That Ends Well as a play principally concerned with the problem of moral and social values as these are expressed in terms of honor and virtue.