“Modern Language Quarterly 25, September 1964, pp. 272–94. Examines the play’s various problems in relation to Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, and the importance of literal, symbolic, and self-knowledge. Cole, Howard C., The All’s Well Story from Boccaccio to Shakespeare (1981). Thorough review of all the source material. Findlay, Alison, A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (1999). Discusses All’s Well in relation to female self-fashioning, pp. 91–100. Frye, Northrop, The... Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies (1983). Brilliant analysis of comedy in terms of mythic structures and cultural history across a broad terrain of classical literary texts, arguing that All’s Well is untypical in its emphasis on social change. Haley, David, Shakespeare’s Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All’s Well That Ends Well (1993). Argues the play offers a critical analysis of courtly society. Hopkins, Lisa, The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands (1998).MoreLessRead More Read Less
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