"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...

A painting of children at play by Francisco de Goya belatedly joined an exhibit of Spanish masterpieces on Thursday after being stolen en route from an Ohio museum and then recovered."All's well that ends well," said Don Bacigalupi, director of the Toledo Museum of Art,...

George Bernard Shaw will join William Shakespeare next season at the Stratford Festival of Canada, with Christopher Plummer starring as Julius Caesar in a revival of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra."Appearing opposite Plummer as a young queen of the Nile will be Anika Noni Rose, who...

Hypocrisy _ religious and otherwise _ is the theme of a double dose of classics Theatre for a New Audience has brought to off-Broadway's Duke on 42nd Street.The plays are William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta," two works...

If the installers hadn't almost burned my house down, I'd say Verizon's new cable television and high speed Internet service was fantastic.In fact, ever since the smoke cleared, I've enjoyed more than 100 TV channels, a responsive remote and fast Internet connection that rarely falters....

In the following essay, McCandless focuses on the evolving gender roles of Helena and Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well, discussing Shakespeare's handling of the bed trick as a tool for exploring gender myths.

In the following essay, Bennett investigates the various comic techniques Shakespeare employed in All's Well That Ends Well, and argues that the play is more a comedy than a romance.

In the following essay, Parker suggests linkages between characters, scenes, and themes in All's Well That Ends Well, arguing that the sexual terms “increase” and “dilation” have economic, verbal, hermeneutic, and familial implications in the play.

This is a review of the Actor's Shakespeare Project production of William Shakespeare's play "All's Well That Ends Well," performed on April 23, 2006.