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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... Shakespeare himself was responsible for putting into print. Each bears the author's dedication to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton (1573–1624), the second in warmer terms than the first. Southampton, younger than Shakespeare by ...
William Shakespeare. called because they were made from printers' sheets folded twice to form four leaves (eight pages). None of them shows any sign that he was involved in their publication. For him, performance was the primary means of ...
William Shakespeare. The. Chronology. of. Shakespeare's. Works. A few of Shakespeare's writings can be fairly precisely dated. An allusion to the Earl of Essex in the chorus to Act V of Henry V, for instance, could only have been written in ...
William Shakespeare. Edward III (authorship uncertain, not included in this series) Richard II Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream King John The Merchant of Venice Henry IV, Part I The Merry Wives of Windsor Henry IV, Part II Much ...
William Shakespeare. Introduction. 'WIVES MAYBE MERRY, AND YET HONEST TOO' So says Mistress Page (IV.2.99), pausing to give the audience a little feminine wisdom as she and her fellow 'Windsor wife' Mistress Ford prepare to humiliate ...