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The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's The Decameron. Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure.
The name of the play expresses the proverb All's well that ends well, which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good.
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