SOURCE: "The Problem Plays: Social Regulation of Desire," in The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies, Wayne State University Press, 1986, pp. 55-110.
In the following excerpt, Williamson explores All's Well that Ends Well in light of the social and legal conventions used to control desire in the younger generations of the seventeenth century.
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