... known as Falstaff with Sir John Oldcastle, then read central elements in The merry wives of Windsor as a quite remarkably daring response to that fuss, before moving on to an analysis of the Oldcastle play as a response to the Henry IV plays. As David Womersley puts it, ‘dramatic ripostes—that is to say...

... & granddaughter identified with Ovid's ‘Corinna’ Maule Jeremy Augustus Muivihill J D Waith Eugene Elyot Sir Thomas Governour Gordon D J Horace Kermode Frank Waddington R B William Shakespeare Ovid literary precedents Metamorphoses The Taming of the Shrew The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer...

...In Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff tries to clandestinely meet Mistress Ford three separate times and, each time, Mistresses Ford and Page play pranks on their ardent and clueless suitor. This article argues that each incident is an adaptation of a distinct form of shaming ritual...

... . New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 . Schmidgall, Gary. ‘ Verdi’s “King Lear” Project ’. 19th-Century Music 9, no. 2 (August 1985): 83‒101. Severn, John. ‘Salieri’s Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle and The Merry Wives of Windsor...

...This essay argues that Shakespearean comedies evoke and confound associations between female interiority and domestic space. Drawing on The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew, I show how characters...

...This article notes that, in encounters with Shakespeare's texts, in attempts to explain his language, one needs to be aware of the cultural scene of language as a critical part of the historical. It suggests that Shakespeare's English comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, is a good...

...This article explores the ways in which Shakespeare probes the nature of national identity in King John and The Merry Wives of Windsor, two plays that display revealingly different approaches to ‘England’. King John, a history play, examines...

...The character Falstaff appears in two history plays and a comedy: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Which allusions does Falstaff make consciously and which unconsciously (or which are diegetic versus non-diegetic, to borrow a useful film...

...Cora Fox traces the ways the gendered governing emotion of merriness negotiates and solidifies communities in ‘Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor’. Her essay points to how recent work on positive emotions in contemporary affect theory, particularly informed...

... spend the night together; Mr Ford's house in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which the fat knight Falstaff is thrown into a laundry basket and then beaten as a witch, and Petruccio's house in The Taming of the Shrew, where he takes his new bride Katherine to tame her...

...This chapter discusses the comic “butt” and specifically the somatic relation of the butt to Falstaff as the comic “ass” in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Because claims for a pun on ass and arse in Renaissance English are debatable, one can consider that Falstaff’s...

..., A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. comedies genres works of Shakespeare Wriothesley Henry 3rd Earl...

...Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor all show a similar progression from a shorter, less satisfactory first-published version to a longer, more accomplished version (for Hamlet, two later versions). Editors of the plays still...