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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 40.
... seems to have fallen on relatively hard times in later life. He would have been brought up as a Catholic, and may have retained Catholic sympathies, but his son subscribed publicly to Anglicanism throughout his life. The most important ...
... The first reference to him in print, in Robert Greene's pamphlet Greene's Groatsworth of Wit of 1592, parodies a line from Henry VI, Part III, implying that Shakespeare was already an established playwright. It seems likely that at.
William Shakespeare. was already an established playwright. It seems likely that at some unknown point after the birth of his twins he joined a theatre company and gained experience as both actor and writer in the provinces and London ...
... seem like the continuation of an old story, then, but in this comedy Falstaff acts differently. Here he converses with wives rather than princes, and those wives take his jests very seriously. He has been 'updated' to a world in which ...
... seem to scorch me up like a burningglass' (I.3.60–62), he says of Mistress Page. Shakespeare endows him with virility through the immoderation of his language – his sheer verbal force creating energetic sexual potency: 'She is a region ...