He flees to the wars, setting impossible conditions for accepting her; she sets about meeting them, on her own terms and by morally interesting means.
A problem play with a fairy-tale skeleton and startlingly real people attached — plus Parolles, a coward whose unmasking scene is a small masterpiece. The title is a question pretending to be a proverb; the ending keeps it a question.
All's Well That Ends Well on screen
1All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
TV film · dir. Elijah Moshinsky
BBC Television Shakespeare
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