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The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket ...
Plot Summary. Justice Shallow, his nephew Slender, and parson Evans are upset at the behaviour of Falstaff and his associates, Nym, Pistol, and Bardolph. Slender is one of several suitors for Anne Page, and her father’s choice. Evans sends a message to Mistress Quickly, Doctor Caius’ housekeeper and a friend of Anne, asking her to help ...
Part of the fifth season of BBC's Televised Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is helmed by David Hugh Jones. Though a TV journeyman, Jones had been an Artistic Controller for the Royal Shakespeare Company - and his want to film this at Stratford-upon-Avon only to be straddled with studio settings, led to ambitious structures that won Don Homfray the 1983 BAFTA for best production design.
While pursuing two married women at the same time, a would-be seducer fails to anticipate that his targets will, quite literally, compare notes. Nor h…
20 mag 2022 · In The Merry Wives of Windsor, 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 ...
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Rent The Merry Wives of Windsor on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Pursuing two married women at the same time, a would-be seducer fails to anticipate that his targets will, quite literally ...
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