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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... give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of few of them (except for the English histories) is set even partly in England ...
... give the audience a little feminine wisdom as she and her fellow 'Windsor wife' Mistress Ford prepare to humiliate Falstaff, the lecherous old knight who is courting them both. But what did being 'merry' mean in the sixteenth century ...
... give The Merry Wives of Windsor a threatening force that adds depth to the absurd circumstances and knockabout ... gives us the perspective of those of middling status, looking up to the court in Windsor Castle. The Merry Wives of ...
... give linguistic shape to all that is courtly and elegantly polished. The former describes his younger rivals amongst the courtiers in terms which are sensual despite his mockery: 'these lisping hawthornbuds that come like women in men's ...
... gives orders to 'Disarm them, and let them question'. Replacing swords with words, he advises, 'Let them keep their limbs whole and hack our English' (III.1.70–71). In his final humiliation, Falstaff protests against Sir Hugh Evans with ...