Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her brand new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage – conditions he is sure will never be met.
By turns romantic and comic, some of Shakespeare’s most inventive language gives life to a single-minded heroine, her churlish lover and a fantastic cast of frauds, cynics, sentimentalists and buffoons.
