That hero, Bertram de Rossillion (RAW-SEE-YAWN) runs away to fight in Italy, rather than marry Helena, who has cured the French King of his fistula.
In a recent BBC film version of this play, the cure scene in Act II is portrayed as a sexual act, rather than the medicine of Gerard de Narbonne. Along with Measure for Measure, it is one of the few Shakespeare plays to feature the "bed trick," in which the heroine achieves her goals by duping the hero into sleeping with her. That hero, Bertram de Rossillion (RAW-SEE-YAWN) runs away to fight in Italy, rather than marry Helena, who has cured the French King of his fistula. FTP, name this Shakespeare play in which everything seems to work out.
In a recent BBC film version of this play, the cure scene in Act II is portrayed as a sexual act, rather than the medicine of Gerard de Narbonne.
{All’s Well That Ends Well}