all's well that ends well

it is possible to generally follow the plot of a shakespeare play, when listening to it on cassette. you may not get all of the references, however. i listened to the complete play on cassette, all's well that ends well. i understood the basic points of the plot. and i appreciate the story that is told. but at some point in the future i'm going to have to see if the internet has some shakespeare study guides, or purchase them through an online bookstore, so that i can follow all of the uses of language that makes studying shakespeare unique.

sometimes in a comedy, two people exist in relation to each other, having problems or misunderstandings that prevent them from getting together, but by the end of the film or story they're together. a happy ending. a comedy. someone once said a happy story ends with two people getting together, but a tragedy ends in death. weddings and funerals. sex/love and death. i think anyone who wraps their mind around an entire shakespeare play, not to mention all of them, will come away with an expanded view of the human condition, the basic question, what does it mean to be a human being?