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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... looks exactly like the sixteenth century in which Shakespeare was writing the play. Involved in local rather than national events, domestic rather than political, Falstaff's very presence shows just how different The Merry Wives of ...
... present in Falstaff's speech, for instance his abuse of Pistol, whom he accuses of trying to 'ensconce your rags, your catamountain looks, your redlattice phrases, and your bold beating oaths, under the shelter of your.
... Look how you drumble!' (III.3.139), and it is clear that Shakespeare's habitual experimentation with language is not lacking in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He uses these distinctive discourses to define a tightknit community made out of ...
... look for parallels between the characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor and people or stories known to Shakespeare. His Windsor seemed so real, they thought, it must have been based on real people. The opening accusation that Falstaff ...
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