Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and the Merry Wives of Windsor

Here is one of Shakespeare’s problematic plays and his most farcical. The arc of love’s victory in “All’s Well That Ends Well” doesn’t compel an audience’s compassion, yet it is still a skillfully written play. “The Merry Wives of Windsor” has been criticized for having been written in 14 days, yet it brims with wit and features a new tale of Falstaff, one of literature’s greatest characters.