The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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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.The authoritative edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
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-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
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MERRY WIVES
OF WINDSOR
ACT 1
SHALLOW Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make a | 1 |
Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir | 2 |
John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, | 3 |
Esquire. | 4 |
SLENDER In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace | 5 |
and Coram. | 6 |
SHALLOW Ay, Cousin Slender, and Custalorum. | 7 |
SLENDER Ay, and Ratolorum too; and a gentleman born, | 8 |
Master Parson, who writes himself “Armigero” | 9 |
in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation— | 10 |
“Armigero!” | 11 |
SHALLOW Ay, that I do, and have done any time these | 12 |
three hundred years. | 13 |
SLENDER All his successors gone before him hath | 14 |
done ’t, and all his ancestors that come after him | 15 |
may. They may give the dozen white luces in their | 16 |
coat. | 17 |
SHALLOW It is an old coat. | 18 |
SIR HUGH The dozen white louses do become an old | 19 |
coat well. It agrees well, passant. It is a f... |