All's Well That Ends Well
Another Shakespeare play to chalk off. That last one (Coriolanus) didn't quite have the magic for me, but this one was much more to my tune. I really love these type of plays. I like the playful, flirty, wordy ones. Where it's all heartache and courtship. Clowns and witty women. They just have a charm. You want to be there. It's in the Love's Labour's Lost/Much Ado About Nothing mould. In fact, I don't really have much to add, other than that I was reminded of Love's Labour's Lost (my favourite Shakespeare play) a few times whilst reading it. Firstly, just because it had a similar vibe - so I was thinking back to it with familiar fondness. Then later because there was a line in it that brought to mind the title. Widow: [...] We have lost our labour The apostrophes in the title have always vexed me a little. In the earliest published version it was simply printed as Loues labors loſt . In the 1623 First Folio it became, Loues Labour's Lost . A quar