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- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Helen?
All's Well That Ends Well isn't the only play where Shakespeare introduces us to a lovesick girl named Helen. Helena spends all of A Midsummer Night's Dream fawning over her distant ex-lover, Demetrius. This character guide on Helena of Athens is a neat tool to use as a compare and contrast exercise between the two women. - And You Thought This Was a Problem Play?
All's Well That Ends Well is considered one of Shakespeare's "problem plays," mostly because the ending is so unsatisfying (some might even say "completely weird and wrong"). His other problem play is also worth looking at. Talk to your students about Measure for Measure and see how it stacks up next to All's Well. In what way are the problems similar? In what way are they different?