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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... Falstaff, the lecherous old knight who is courting them both. But what did being 'merry' mean in the sixteenth century? This is a very merry play in the sense that it's a very funny play – two comical stories of wooing intertwined, and ...
... Falstaff, filled with anticipation, attends three trysts. The wives, filled with indignation, make sure the meetings ... Falstaff also appears in Henry IV, Parts I and II and is mentioned in Henry V, plays which Shakespeare was writing ...
... Falstaff acts differently. Here he converses with wives rather than princes, and those wives take his jests very seriously. He has been 'updated' to a world in which bills have to be paid and responsibility taken for actions; a world ...
... Falstaff himself comes on to the stage and responds to the accusation: 'I have done all this' (109). He claims to have 'answered' Shallow, but he plays on the two meanings of 'answer' – to make amends and to reply. The threats of ...
... Falstaff's men Pistol and Nym take exception to being asked by their master to deliver his love letters to the merry wives – it is a job beneath their status. Refusing pointblank, they plot vengeance instead: NYM I have operations which ...