Volume Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of / William Shakespeare
Summary of All's Well That Ends Well
List of Characters in All's Well That Ends Well
Key Passages in All's Well That Ends Well
Criticism Through The Ages
All's Well That Ends Well in the Eighteenth Century
1753-From Shakespeare Illustrated / Charlotte Lennox
1765-All's Well That Ends Well (notes), from The Plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson
1775-From The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama / Elizabeth Griffith
1777-From An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff / Maurice Morgann
All's Well That Ends Well in the Nineteenth Century
1817-From Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt
1833-From Table-Talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1846-From Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / A. W. Schlegel
1863-From Shakespeare-Characters Chiefly Those Subordinate / Charles Cowden Clarke
1864-From The Life and Genius of Shakespeare / Ihomas Kenny
1896-From Shakespeare and His Predecessors / Frederick S. Boas
All's Well That Ends Well in the Twentieth Century
1911-From Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist / Thomas Lounsbury
1913-From Shakespeare as a Playwright / Brander Matthews
1922-From "The Meaning of All's Well That Ends Well" / W. W. Lawrence
1951-From Shakespeare's Problem Plays / E.M.W.Tillyard
1958-From The Sovereign Flower / George Wilson Knight
1994-From Acting Funny: Comic Theory and Practice in Shakespeare's Plays / Mary Free
1997-From Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies / David McCandless
All's Well That Ends Well in the Twenty-first Century
2007-From New Critical Essays on All's Well That Ends Well / Helen Wilcox