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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... language of his plays is permeated by the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer and the proverbial sayings of his day. Shakespeare was popular with his contemporaries, but his commitment to the theatre and to the plays in performance is ...
... language. Phrases from his plays and poems – 'a tower of strength', 'greeneyed jealousy', 'a foregone conclusion' – are on the lips of people who may never have read him. They have inspired composers of songs, orchestral music and ...
... languages of its inhabitants. This play has more references to English as a language than any of Shakespeare's other plays, and very many of them are negative, in the sense that they involve characters complaining about their fellows ...
... language which gives him energy – more energy than is usual for a man of his age and bulk. 'O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burningglass ...
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