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Jun 13, 2024 · The inveterate cheat, gambler and liar (John Hodgkinson) has targeted two wives of wealthy men for a romance scam, but Mistress Page and Mistress Ford figure it out and decide to bamboozle him...
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Jun 10, 2024 · Blanche McIntyre, director, said: “The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare’s most underrated plays. Its mixture of comedy and vulnerability foreshadows great writers such as Alan Ayckbourn, and its farcical set pieces are the forerunners of classic sitcom.
Curtains are twitching and tongues are wagging in this fresh new production of Shakespeare’s suburban comedy. When an out-of-pocket schemer arrives among the lawns and herbaceous borders of Windsor, he sets about seducing two well-to-do married women. It’s the perfect hustle.
Jun 13, 2024 · In Blanche McIntyre’s frenetic interpretation, The Merry Wives of Windsor is the great-grandmother of all English sitcoms, replete with sexual innuendoes, obfuscating misunderstandings and plenty of shouting and running about.
The Merry Wives of Windsor Overview. This comedy vehicle for Sir John Falstaff relates how the fat knight gets his comeuppance from the two wealthy married women he is simultaneously courting.
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor [1] is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.
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May 20, 2022 · Read and download The Merry Wives of Windsor for free. Learn about this Shakespeare play, find scene-by-scene summaries, and discover more Folger resources.
