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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... Shallow with him into this play. Merry Wives can seem like the continuation of an old story, then, but in this comedy Falstaff acts differently. Here he converses with wives rather than princes, and those wives take his jests very ...
... Shallow, but he plays on the two meanings of 'answer' – to make amends and to reply. The threats of violence are, however, undercut by the pomposity of Shallow, the age of the two potential combatants and the absurdity of Shallow's ...
... Shallow's obsession with using his sword; to the 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 ...
... Shallow, the Justice of the Peace who clearly lives locally but who also has lands in Gloucestershire; there is ... Shallow is a gentleman and Sir John Falstaff is of course a knight. Whilst Falstaff disgraces his rank by his exploits ...
... 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 result, an introspective community. No character is so ...