The Village Voice, February 22nd, 2006
A smart Victorian woman chases a stupid jerk
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
By William Shakespeare
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LADY'S CHOICE
Nineteenth-century critics condemned Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well as "really exceptionable," "exceedingly gross," and "indelicate even beyond the limits usually conceded to Elizabethan dramatists." Despite the expurgation of banter, bed tricks, and all the deliciously smutty puns, for centuries the play languished as all but unplayable. No record of its production in the 17th century exists, while the 18th logged...
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