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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... 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: T. J. B. SPENCER GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY WELLS.
... Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. She studies the literature and history of early modern material culture, and has written books on Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England (2006), Shakespeare ...
... reading, often in close detail. Holinshed's Chronicles (1577, revised 1587), a great compendium of English, Scottish and Irish history, provided material for his English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the ...
... readers, they exist fully only in performance. In these volumes we offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further reading and information about how each work has been edited ...
... reading his letter, Mistress Page's fury leads first to a generalized sexism – 'Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men' (II.1.26–7) – and then to a very particularized vengeance: 'How shall I be revenged ...