Guide Note:All's Well That Ends Well is a classic comedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Written: 1601-1608
- Primary source: Decameron - Boccacio
- First Publication: First Folio (1623)
- One of Shakespeare's least-performed plays
- First performance: 1741 - Goodman's Fields
- Ran for 38 performances on Broadway in 1983
- Main Characters:
- Helena
- Bertram
- Parolles
- Diana
- Countess of Rossilion
- Famous Quotes:
- My friends were poor but honest. 1.3
- They say miracles are past. 2.3
- A young man married is a man that's marred. 2.3
- No legacy is so rich as honesty. 3.5
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. 4.3