Teaching Shakespeare is a challenge in and of itself because the Elizabethan language might sound like gibberish to your thoroughly modern students. All's Well That Ends Well is especially tricky to teach because it's not as well known to high school students as some of his other plays. You can feel confident that most of your kids will have at least a passing knowledge of stories like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and maybe even lesser-taught plays like Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus because of recent, splashy film adaptations with popular and recognizable actors.

The most you'll find of All's Well That Ends Well, on the other hand, are stuffy BBC adaptations that will put your students to sleep, or poorly recorded YouTube videos of stage productions. (Darn it, Branagh, where were you?) So you won't be able to lean on the movies for this one.