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All’s Well That Ends Well.

10-Sep-09

http://lyndsaycambridge.com/templates/beez3/ All’s Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” those plays whose resolution is most unsatisfactory; the poet’s justice seeming to us injustice. The Count Roussillon, whose father died when he was a minor, became a ward of the French king, who thereupon had the power to bestow him in marriage; and the […]

A Little Shakespeare…

09-Sep-09

http://ramblingfisherman.com/2012/07/the-power-drifter-has-arrived/ … from All’s Well That Ends Well. He always astonishes me.  On superficial knowledge: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors, ensconscing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an […]