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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... kind of drama to another. Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he ...
... KIND OF PLAY IS THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR? Although, as the General Introduction to this volume indicates, 'Every play by Shakespeare is unique', The Merry Wives of Windsor is more unique than most. Shakespeare's history plays are ...
... kind of community does Shakespeare depict in Windsor? The first thing we notice about it is its diversity. There are the 'comic foreigners' – the Welsh parson Sir Hugh and the French doctor Dr Caius, the two professional men to whom the ...
... kind of community Shakespeare represents – by setting Merry Wives in a town situated next to a royal castle he can comment on the social pretensions of his characters. Connections between the town and the royal court are imagined ...
... kind of speech is to assume he is speaking a foreign language: 'Ay, you spake in Latin then too' (I.1.164–6). Add to this some rich dialect words – Mistress Quickly describing the Fords' marriage, 'she leads a very frampold life with ...