| LC control no. | no2008026693 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. All's well that ends well |
| See also | Based on (work): Painter, William, 1540?-1594. Palace of pleasure Adapted as television program (work): All's well that ends well (Television program : 1981) |
| Form of work | Play Drama |
| Beginning date | [1601,1602,1603,1604,1605] |
| Place of origin | England Great Britain |
| Found in | Miss Macklin in the character of Helena [graphic], 1775 (All's well that ends well, act 5, scene last) Wikipedia, June 10, 2014 (All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is traditionally believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623; Though originally the play was classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, so named because they cannot be neatly classified as tragedy nor comedy; The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's The Decameron. Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure) Folger Shakespeare Library website, June 10, 2014: All's Well That Ends Well (All's Well That Ends Well; Most scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote All's Well That Ends Well between 1601 and 1605. Its first known publication was in the 1623 First Folio. Among Shakespeare's sources was William Painter's Palace of Pleasure, an English translation of the story as told in Boccaccio's Decameron) Open source Shakespeare, viewed June 10, 2014 (All's Well That Ends Well (1602)) |
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