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27 July 2017 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7756 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Shakespeare in 101 words (Pt 3)

Roderick Ramage reworks William Shakespeare in bite-size format

All’s Well That Ends Well

To get your man: be adopted by Countess Rossillion, who approves your love for her son Bertram; attend court and cure the King with your late father’s secret prescription; marry the reluctant Bertram, when the King offers any bachelor at court; when Bertram goes to war in Tuscany forbidding you from calling him husband until you obtain his ring and bear his child, follow him; lodge with a widow whose daughter, Diana, Bertram covets; arrange a bed swap to obtain Bertram’s ring and the seed of his child; and return to court where Bertram repents and avows his love for you.

Twelfth Night

Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked. She disguises herself as a boy, Cesario, and becomes a page with Duke Orsino, who employs ‘him’ to court Olivia. Olivia falls for Cesario, who, as Viola, falls for Orsino. Sebastian is rescued by Antonio and is mistaken for Cesario first by a challenger, whom he beats, and then

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