The Merry Wives of WindsorPenguin UK, 29 de set. 2005 - 256 pàgines In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive, this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively, compelling and ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter. |
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... doctor, the parson, the courtier and the justice's nephew. One man who isn't interested in Anne is Sir John Falstaff – he is busy sending love letters to her mother and her mother's friend, wooing them in courtly style and trying to ...
... doctor's and priest's efforts to avoid using theirs; via Pistol's empty boast that he will use both wit and steel; to the least violent and most witty of the revenge plots, that of the wives against Falstaff. On reading his letter ...
... doctor Dr Caius, the two professional men to whom the Host refers as 'soulcurer and bodycurer' (III.1.90); there is Shallow, the Justice of the Peace who clearly lives locally but who also has lands in Gloucestershire; there is Fenton ...
... doctor about by the fields' (70–71). Waiting in Frogmore with the other combatant, Simple sets out the range of places in which he has searched for Caius: 'Marry, sir, the pittieward, the parkward, every way; Old Windsor way, and every ...
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