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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... young man whom Shakespeare celebrates in his Sonnets. The resumption of playing after the plague years saw the founding of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a company to which Shakespeare was to belong for the rest of his career, as actor ...
... : 'O'my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it' (37–8), but is counselled by Sir Hugh towards mediation – 'friends', suggests the parson, should be the sword – they should intervene between the two men with wise counsel.
... young gentleman who is Anne Page's own choice for her hand in marriage – a courtier blown in from the castle next door; and there is Falstaff, himself passing through, lodging at the inn with his rugged band of men. The Pages and the ...
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