All’s Well That Ends Well (Wordsworth Classics)

　　There is an enigmatic quality about All’s Well That Ends Well and it has been categorized as being ‘crude enough to be early, yet mature enough to be late’. It is a classic Renaissance tale, taken largely from Boccaccio’s Decameron, and is a delightful play of unrequited love, renounced and love triumphant.

　　The play is remarkable for its fully developed sub-plot, concerning the worthless braggart parolles, in which Shakespeare’s comic inventiveness can be seen at its best.

　　The text of this edition is taken from the Cambridge University Press New Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.