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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... Slender, whose attempts to bolster his uncle's status by pointing out the heredity of his claim to sign his name 'Armigero', or gentleman, are plagued by confusions: 'All his successors gone before him hath done't; and all his ancestors ...
... Slender is most selfconscious about his status, at pains to stress it by unsubtly dropping what he considers to be signs of refinement into conversations. Apart from his habit of swearing, gallantlike, 'by these gloves', he also swears ...
... 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 result, an introspective community. No character ...
... Slender's drunkenness on the night when they picked his pocket, for instance: 'And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered. And so conclusions passed the careers.' Slender's response to this curious kind of speech is to assume he is ...
... Slender 'through the town to Frogmore' (II.3.68), constructing a huge geography just offstage by stating that he will then 'bring the doctor about by the fields' (70–71). Waiting in Frogmore with the other combatant, Simple sets out the ...