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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William Shakespeare. Contents. General Introduction The Chronology of Shakespeare's Works Introduction The Play in Performance Further Reading THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR An Account of the Text Commentary Follow Penguin FOUNDING EDITOR: ...
... , Shakespeare and Material Culture (2011) and, with Tara Hamling, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: The Materiality of Domestic Life, 1500–1700 (2016). General Introduction Every play by Shakespeare is unique. This is.
... play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he worked demanded, and which provided an invaluable stimulus to his imagination. Introductions to individual works in this series attempt ...
... play and additional actors were hired as needed. Led by the tragedian Richard Burbage (1568–1619) and, initially, the comic actor Will Kemp (d. 1603), they rapidly achieved a high reputation, and when King James I succeeded Queen ...
... play Cardenio. Shakespeare's output dwindled in his last years, and he died in 1616 in Stratford, where he owned a fine house, New Place, and much land. His only son had died at the age of eleven, in 1596, and his last descendant died ...