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This play is a dramatization of Boccaccio's story of Gillette of Narbonne. Only the comic parts were of Shakespeare's invention; he added the characters of the pusillanimous Parolles, the lofty courtier Lafew, the Clown Lavatch, and the long suffering Countess. He gave new depth and vitality to the leading characters, who are mere outlines in Boccaccio’s tale.
The comedy has for its heroine a young woman who loves the haughty Bertram with an unrequited and despised passion, cures the King of France of a dangerous sickness, claims as her reward the right to choose a husband from among the courtiers, chooses Bertram, is repudiated by him, and, after a nocturnal meeting at which she takes the place of another woman whom he believes himself to have seduced, at last overcomes his resistance and is acknowledged as his wife.
In Helena Shakespeare drew a portrait of familiar type of loving and cruelly maltreated womanhood - the woman who suffers everything in inexhaustible tenderness and humility, and never falters in her love until in the end she wins the rebellious heart.

Featuring the voices of Aisling Gray, Linda Barrans, Emma Faye, David Shears, P J Morgan, Marty Krz, John Burlinson, Denis Daly, Gary D. MacFadden, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray.

Audio edited by Denis Daly

Text kindly provided by playshakespeare.com

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