Alls Well That Ends Well

· Voices of Today Pty Limited · Narrated by a full cast, Aisling Gray, Emma Faye, David Shears, PJ Morgan, Marty Krz, John Burlinson, Denis Daly, Gary MacFadden, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray and Linda Barrans
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This play is a dramatization of Boccaccio’s story of Gillette of Narbonne. Only the comic parts were of Shakespeare’s invention; he added the characters of the pusillanimous Parolles, the lofty courtier Lafew, the Clown Lavatch, and the long suffering Countess. He gave new depth and vitality to the leading characters, who are mere outlines in Boccaccio’s tale.

The comedy has for its heroine a young woman who loves the haughty Bertram with an unrequited and despised passion, cures the King of France of a dangerous sickness, claims as her reward the right to choose a husband from among the courtiers, chooses Bertram, is repudiated by him, and, after a nocturnal meeting at which she takes the place of another woman whom he believes himself to have seduced, at last overcomes his resistance and is acknowledged as his wife.

In Helena, Shakespeare drew a portrait of familiar type of loving and cruelly maltreated womanhood—the woman who suffers everything in inexhaustible tenderness and humility, and never falters in her love until in the end she wins the rebellious heart.

About the author

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest.

Emma Faye, a.k.a. "The Clean Reads Queen," is an audiobook narrator and actor with a passion for bringing stories to life. She specializes in YA, sweet romance, fantasy, inspiring nonfiction, and anything clean. She has twenty-plus years of acting experience and has voiced over thirty audiobooks. Recording in her professional home studio, Emma dives deep into the characters and stories to bring them to life in a fresh and captivating way. She puts her heart into every project and it comes across when you are listening to her audiobooks. Emma also runs a local community theater, moderates a support group for women going through betrayal trauma, and is a proud cat mom of four kitties.

John Burlinson is an American audiobook narrator.

Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller are Australian narrators and audiobook producers.

Gary MacFadden is a voice talent based in western Montana, USA. He works in commercial, e-learning, explainer videos, and audiobooks. Gary has narrated and produced over forty audiobooks, and has produced another dozen books for other narrators.

Kendra Murray is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.

Linda Barrans is a British narrator with a fondness for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She wrote the Sam books to make positive use of time during COVID lockdown, and to give herself and friend Cate Barratt a modern piece to record together.

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