allswell

<PLAY>
<TITLE>All's Well That Ends Well</TITLE>

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<PERSONAE>
<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE>

<PERSONA>KING OF FRANCE</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>DUKE OF FLORENCE</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>LAFEU, an old lord.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram.</PERSONA>

<PGROUP>
<PERSONA>Steward</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>Clown</PERSONA>
<GRPDESCR>servants to the Countess of Rousillon.</GRPDESCR>
</PGROUP>

<PERSONA>A Page. </PERSONA>
<PERSONA>COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram. </PERSONA>
<PERSONA>HELENA, a gentlewoman protected by the Countess.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>An old Widow of Florence. </PERSONA>
<PERSONA>DIANA, daughter to the Widow.</PERSONA>

<PGROUP>
<PERSONA>VIOLENTA</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>MARIANA</PERSONA>
<GRPDESCR>neighbours and friends to the Widow.</GRPDESCR>
</PGROUP>

<PERSONA>Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &amp;c., French and Florentine.</PERSONA>
</PERSONAE>

<SCNDESCR>SCENE  Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles.</SCNDESCR>

<PLAYSUBT>ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL</PLAYSUBT>

<ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE>

<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</TITLE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA,
and LAFEU, all in black</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>COUNTESS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.</LINE>
</SPEECH>