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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... Pistol' (I.1.118–19). Their knightly master's poverty and the fact that he chooses associates who are always pilfering and are at any moment likely to be looking 'through the grate [prison bars], like a geminy [pair] of baboons' (II.2.8 ...
... 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 be humours of ...
... present in Falstaff's speech, for instance his abuse of Pistol, whom he accuses of trying to 'ensconce your rags, your catamountain looks, your redlattice phrases, and your bold beating oaths, under the shelter of your.
... Pistol and Nym in language more appropriate for talking to an animal: Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. Rogues, hence, avaunt! Vanish like hailstones, go! Trudge, plod away o'th'hoof, seek shelter, pack!' (I.3.75–7) As London ...
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