{"id":1067,"date":"2008-12-10T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2008-12-16T03:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T08:38:45","slug":"alls-well-that-ends-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1067","title":{"rendered":"All’s Well that Ends Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I finally got the reading group started up again. A member generously offered to host in January, I got the invites out, and we’ve already got enough RSVPs to hold the reading (any less than four, and I cancel). <\/p>\n

We’ll be reading All’s Well that Ends Well<\/em>, which is a play that’s pretty far down the list of plays that I’m familiar with. I think I’ve read it only twice, but both times I had the chance to discuss the play with others: once in a graduate course, and once for a discussion group I was part of. We’ve never done a reading of it, even though my group has been doing monthly readings for over six years now. I have also never seen a production of it, though I may check out the BBC DVD before the reading.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that I’m pretty excited to revisit a play that I remember enjoying very much but don’t necessarily remember why. It didn’t make my Top 25 plays<\/a> last year, which is not surprising given my limited recollection of the story, but somehow Helena made my list of Top 50 characters<\/a>, so I guess I’m not completely out to lunch.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite scenes (though apparently not one of my Top 50 scenes<\/a> in Shakespeare) was the scene where Parolles is blindfolded and the soldiers speak in a made-up language to convince him that they are enemy soldiers speaking a foreign language.<\/p>\n

Anyway, are there any big All’s Well<\/em> fans out there? Let’s make some noise. What about this play does it for you? What do we have to look forward to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I finally got the reading group started up again. A member generously offered to host in January, I got the invites out, and we’ve already got enough RSVPs to hold the reading (any less than four, and I cancel). We’ll be reading All’s Well that Ends Well, which is a play that’s pretty far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","category-reading-group","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}