All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Project 2020

This was not one of my favorites - an unfunny comedy. Though it is a bawdy one!

I.1. Parolles: "Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up; marry, in blowing him down again....

Of course, some famous and some poignant quotes:

I.1 Countess: "Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none;..."

II.1 Helena: "...Great floods have flown

From simple sources, and great seas have dried

When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there

Where most it promises; and oft it hits

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."

II.3 King: "Strange is it that our bloods,

Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,

Would quite confound distinction..."

IV.3. Second Lord: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,

good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud if our

faults whipt them not; and our crimes would despair if

they were not cherish'd by our virtues."

and Diana calls out the player Bertram:

IV.2 Diana"...but when you have our roses

You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,

And mock us with our bareness."