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Preface  From 'the Unfortunate Comedy' to 'this Infinitely Fascinating Play': The Critical and Theatrical Emergence of All’s Well, That Ends Well Gary Waller  Revising the Sources: Novella, Romance, and the Meanings of Fiction in All’s Well, That Ends Well Steven Mentz  'As Sweet as Sharp': Helena and the Fairy Bride Tradition Regina Buccola  Tying the (K)not: The Marriage of Tragedy and Comedy in All’s Well,That Ends Well Paul Gleed  All’s Well, That Ends Well and the Art of Retrograde Motion Deanne Williams  Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All’s Well, That Ends Well Kent R. Lehnhof   'To make the ‘not’ eternal': Female Eloquence and Patriarchal Authority in All's Well, That Ends Well Ellen Belton  Shakespeare’s Miracle Play? Religion in All’s Well, That Ends Well Helen Wilcox  She is in the Right: Biblical Maternity and All’s Well, That Ends Well Michele Osherow  'The credit of your father': Absent Fathers in All's Well, That Ends Well David M. Bergeron  '’Twas mine, ’twas Helen’s': Rings of Desire in All’s Well, That Ends Well' Nicholas Ray  ‘Sweet Practicer, thy Physic I will try’: Helena and Her ‘Good Receipt’ in All’s Well, That Ends Well Catherine Field  All’s Well, That Ends Well and the 1604 Controversy Concerning the Court of Wards and Liveries Terry Reilly  Playing it Accordingly: Parolles and Shakespeare's Knee-crooking Knaves Craig Dionne  All’s Well as Television: the 1980 Moshinsky Production Bob White  Appendix Select List of Productions of All’s Well, That Ends Well, 1953-2006  Select Bibliography.  Contributors.  Index