All's Well That Ends Well: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2009.

Shakespeare is clearly indebted to Boccaccio's Decameron (the ninth story of the third day) for his story about a clever French woman who secures her choice of husband by curing the sick king and winning his assignment of her preference for a husband against her fiancé's will. Shakespeare may well have used Painter's English version of this story in his Palace of Pleasure (thirty-eighth tale) This small-scale production, with merely suggestive and playful scenery, nevertheless evoked a vivid sense of stage personalities, indicating that the scale of a production has nothing to do with its impact and success. James Edmondson as King of France; Kjerstine Rose Anderson as Helena; Jenny Graham, Photographer. Courtesy of Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland.