All's Well That Ends Well
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| - | The first volume of his ''[[Palace of Pleasure]]'' by [[William Painter]] appeared in 1566, and was dedicated to the earl of Warwick. It included sixty tales, and was followed in the next year by a second volume containing thirty-four new ones. A second improved edition in 1575 contained seven new stories. Painter borrows from [[Herodotus]], [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]], [[Plutarch]], [[Aulus Gellius]], [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], [[Livy]], [[Tacitus]], [[Quintus Curtius]]; from [[Giovanni Battista Giraldi]], [[Matteo Bandello]], Ser [[Giovanni Fiorentino]], [[Giovanni Francesco Straparola]], Queen [[Marguerite of Navarre]] and others. | ||
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| - | To the vogue of this and similar collections we owe the Italian setting of so large a proportion of the [[Elizabethan drama]]. The early tragedies of [[Appius and Virginia]], and [[Tancred and Gismund]] were taken from ''The Palace of Pleasure''; and among better-known plays derived from the book are the Shakespearean ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[Timon of Athens]]'', ''[[Edward III (play)|Edward III]]'', ''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]'' (from Giletta of Narbonne), [[Beaumont and Fletcher]]'s ''Triumph of Death'' and Shirley's ''Loves Cruelty''. | ||
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| - | ''The Palace of Pleasure'' was edited by Joseph Haslewood in 1813. This edition was collated (1890) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of [[Italian novella]] in Elizabethan drama. | ||
| + | '''''All's Well That Ends Well''''' is a play by [[William Shakespeare]]. It was probably written between [[1601 in literature|1601]] and [[1608 in literature|1608]], and it was first published in the ''[[First Folio]]'' in [[1623 in literature|1623]]. | ||
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All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written between 1601 and 1608, and it was first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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