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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... Ford prepare to humiliate Falstaff, the lecherous old knight who is courting them both. But what did being 'merry ... Ford's jealous husband a lesson. They are joyous, full of mirth, and constantly lively and animated. They're merry ...
... Ford's jealousy and Page's faith in his wife's chastity is revealed by this petty plan for revenge, when the husbands receive the information about their wives' potential unfaithfulness. It leads Ford to visit Falstaff disguised as a ...
... Ford's speech also hints at the less personal motivations for the wives' actions: 'What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor?' (59–60). Falstaff is incongruous in Windsor society ...
... Fords with their respective households, Mistress Quickly and the Host of the Garter Inn represent the stable indigenous householders and housekeepers of the town. The social shape of the Windsor community is revealed in the characters ...
... Ford have the money; none of them has both; Slender and Shallow have some of each but barely a brain between them. Shakespeare depicts a community tied together by the need to strengthen or increase social position, and it is, as a ...