SOURCE: "Shakespeare's 'Rough Magic': Ending as Artifice in All's Well That Ends Well," in The Centennial Review, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 117-34.
In the following essay, Cartelli suggests that the "problematic" ending of All's Well That Ends Well was purposely created by Shakespeare to prompt the audience to recognize its role as theater-goer, and notice the art of play making.
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