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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... generate several plotlines through which revenge is proposed, discussed and exacted. Dr Caius and Sir Hugh are humiliated by the Host of the Garter when he frustrates their attempts to settle their quarrel with a duel. The Host.
... revenge on this same scald, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of the Garter' (III.1.108–11). It is revenge which resolves their hostility, and which later finds fulfilment in the confusing scheme for the theft of the Host's horses ...
... revenge as sport, as entertainment. Both wives focus upon Falstaff's bulk, as though their plotting had been generated by a fascinated disgust at the connection between such a man and the physical lusts of wooing. But Mistress Ford's ...
... revenge plot against the Host by volunteering the spurious information that 'The Duke himself will be tomorrow at court' (IV.3.2). But it is Falstaff and Mistress Quickly who give linguistic shape to all that is courtly and elegantly ...
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