The Character and the Conclusion: Bertram and the Ending of "All's Well That Ends Well"

explained in the same way that the conclusion of Measure for Measure has been explained.' But, as obvious as it may sound, Bertram is not Angelo, and our responses to the conclusions of the plays are not interchangeable. In Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), pp. 152-3, Hugh M. Richmond, writing of Bertram, states: "For once, the naked truth about adolescent passions is objectively presented without any of the offsetting virtues which make the behavior of a Romeo tolerable." Richmond