The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare s merry wives are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two play practical jokes on Mistress Ford s jealous husband and a visiting knight, Sir John Falstaff.
Merry wives, jealous husbands, and predatory knights were common in a kind of play called citizen comedy or city comedy. In such plays, courtiers, gentlemen, or knights use social superiority to seduce citizens wives.
The Windsor wives, though, do not follow that pattern. Instead, Falstaff s offer of himself as lover inspires their torment of him. Falstaff responds with the same linguistic facility that Shakespeare gives him in the history plays in which he appears, making him the hero of the play for many audiences.
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Essay by Natasha Korda
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At the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies. He was President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2007-8) and Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon (1997-2002).

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ISBN 13	9780671722784
ISBN 10	0671722786
Title	The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author	William Shakespeare
Series	Folger Shakespeare Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
Year published	2004-07-01
Number of pages	263
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.