William Shakespeare's comedy All's Well that Ends Well is the more-than-usual stretch. It involves a count who, without apparent reason, is turned off by a woman he's later forced to marry and then abandons - and by the end of the play, deeply loves.
But the language is beautiful and in Central Park's Delacorte Theatre these nights, so is the production by the Public Theater, as elegant a Shakespeare as I've seen in some time.
The cast nails it, in an evening of hankering and scheming; the pay sets up two different sting operations, one against a buffoon (Reg Rogers) by his own wartime military unit and the other, more germane to the plot, against a count (André Holland) by his spurned wife (Annie Parisse).
