by Sylvan Barnet, William Green, William Shakespeare
bookshelves: classic, amusing, autumn-2014, re-visit-2014, play-dramatisation Read from January 01, 2008 to October 14, 2014 Setting: The play is nominally set in the early 1400s, during the same period as the Henry IV plays featuring Falstaff, but there is only one brief reference to this peri...
A Shakespearean comedy that is actually funny. Falstaff thinks he is God's gift to women, especially those who are married. He writes two similar love letters to two married women who are friends. They compare notes and decide to teach Falstaff a lesson. Hilarity ensues.
I listened to the audio that is available here: http://youtu.be/2SUFy2q27N8 while reading along with the text. I know that a lot of this went right over my head, the puns, the word play, the joking, and etc, but I caught enough to follow the ludicrous story, and chuckled along. Hearing it, with infl...
Before anything, one interested in reading The Merry Wives of Windsor for the first time might want to to note that Sir John Falstaff appears in multiple plays (none of which are related to The Merry Wives) and to note where this Falstaff play falls in their mini-chronology.Falstaff appears in Merry...
A lot of things are going on in this play. Falstaff, sure, is no sympathetic character, but the constant play on his size left me a bit uneasy. The 'fat' and the 'ugly' are perhaps now one of the few groups that can be abused remorselessly (oh I forgot, the 'stupid' as well), and I do wonder what is...
Falstaff, the famed scoundrel from Shakespeare‘s Henry IV, is reincarnated as a lecherous buffoon. His quest to bed two wives at once sets him up for shenanigans and humiliation. The merry wives repeatedly trick Falstaff to punish him for his mischievous ways and to eventually expose him to the t...
By the time I was about halfway through The Merry Wives of Windsor, I was pretty sure that I was not going to come away from this play feeling too impressed. I'm glad I stuck with it, though, because everything came together in the end, and ultimately I'd give this play 3.5 stars.Unlike some of Sha...
This play is pure slapstick comedy. It reminds me of those good British comedy series… a sprinkling of Blackadder’s caustic wit, mixed with a dash of Compo’s antics from Last of the Summer Wine. Even though the play lacks the sophistication of Shakespeare’s other plays, in terms of theme, it’s still...
crafting re-read. There was a time when Sarah and Diana were referred to as The Merry Wives of Windsor.Brian Rix would be hard pushed to ladle farce on so thick - marvellous
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