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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... Sir Hugh the parson: he is determined to take Sir John Falstaff to the Star Chamber – the court presided over by the Queen's Privy Council – because he has been 'wronged'. The excessive rehearsal of his titles represents an attempt to ...
... Sir Hugh are humiliated by the Host of the Garter when he frustrates their attempts to settle their quarrel with a duel. The Host.
... Sir Hugh says, speaking in Shakespeare's imitation of Welsh dialect, 'I desire you that we may be friends, and let us knog our prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of the Garter' (III ...
... Sir Hugh and the French doctor Dr Caius, the two professional men to whom the Host refers as 'soulcurer and bodycurer' (III.1.90); there is Shallow, the Justice of the Peace who clearly lives locally but who also has lands in ...
... Sir Hugh Evans with 'Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English?' (V.5.141–2). The national language is being hacked and slashed by foreigners. But the community also gains variety through the dense and ...