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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... offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the ... offers clues to the origins of his genius. His upbringing in StratforduponAvon, where he was born in 1564, was ...
... offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further ... offered by the plays. The Penguin Shakespeare series aspires to remove obstacles to understanding and to make pleasurable ...
... offers his audience an elite view of events which is sometimes also commented upon by characters from the bottom of the social scale; in this play, however, he gives us the perspective of those of middling status, looking up to the ...
... offering nothing in return. THE WINDSOR COMMUNITY The concept of community in Windsor is central to the revenge plots and the comedy of the play. The physical and social closeness of the town's inhabitants and the threats to its morals ...
... offers for social advancement are borne out by the quantity of her suitors. Of all the wooers, Slender is most selfconscious about his status, at pains to stress it by unsubtly dropping what he considers to be signs of refinement into ...