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Below are some photos of Shakespeare in Delaware Park's 2007 production of All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Derek Campbell and starring Kate Lo Conti. All photos by Lawrence Rowswell. |
Lavache flirts with Isobel as Astringer looks on. |
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The Countess and Helena |
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"'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in. The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek. No
more of this, Helena,--go to, no more, lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than to have." "I do affect a sorrow indeed; but I have it too." |
Bertram and the Countess |
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| "Madam, I desire your holy wishes." |
Helena and Parolles |
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| "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase; and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it!" |
Bertram and the King |
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Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris."
"My thanks and duty are your majesty's." |
The Countess and Helena |
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"Then I confess
Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son:-- My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: Be not offended; for it hurts not him That he is lov'd of me: I follow him not By any token of presumptuous suit; Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; Yet never know how that desert should be. I know I love in vain, strive against hope;" |
Bertram and the Captains |
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Helena heals the King. |
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Helena's choice |
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"You are too young, too happy, and too good,
To make yourself a son out of my blood." "Fair one, I think not so." |
Helena chooses Bertram |
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"I dare not say I take you; but I give
Me and my service, ever whilst I live, Into your guiding power.--This is the man." "Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife." |
Parolles and Lafeu |
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"My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation."
"I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal: for doing I am past; as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave." |
Paroles and Bertram |
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| "I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure." |
Bertram's letter |
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Look on this letter, madam; here's my passport.
When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which This is a dreadful sentence." |
Gossiping maidens |
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Helena and the Widow |
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"The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?"
"But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him: His face I know not." "Whatsoe'er he is, He's bravely taken here. He stole from France, As 'tis reported, for the king had married him Against his liking: think you it is so?" "Ay, surely, mere the truth; I know his lady." |
Parolles' punishment |
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Diana |
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"Ay, so you serve us
Till we serve you; but when you have our roses You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness." |
Berttram and Diana |
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"Mine honour's such a ring:
My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors; Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world In me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom Brings in the champion honour on my part Against your vain assault." "Here, take my ring: My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, And I'll be bid by thee." |
Bertram, Captain Conrad Dumain and Lafeu |
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"Come on, my son, in whom my house's name
Must be digested, give a favour from you, To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter, That she may quickly come.-- By my old beard, And every hair that's on 't, Helen, that's dead, Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this, The last that e'er I took her leave at court, I saw upon her finger." |
Astringer and the Countess |
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| "Now, justice on the doers!" |
Diana |
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"I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine, Derived from the ancient Capulet; My suit, as I do understand, you know, And therefore know how far I may be pitied." |
Diana and the Countess |
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"He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so
He might have bought me at a common price: Do not believe him. O, behold this ring, Whose high respect and rich validity Did lack a parallel; yet, for all that, He gave it to a commoner o' the camp, If I be one." "He blushes, and 'tis it: Of six preceding ancestors, that gem, Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been ow'd and worn. This is his wife; That ring's a thousand proofs." |
Helena's return |
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"O, my good lord, when I was like this maid;
I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring, And, look you, here's your letter. This it says, 'When from my finger you can get this ring, And are by me with child, &c.'-- This is done: Will you be mine now you are doubly won?" |
All's well that ends well. |
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"If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,
I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly." "If it appear not plain, and prove untrue, Deadly divorce step between me and you!-- O my dear mother, do I see you living?" |
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