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	The Merry Wives of Windsor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare featuring the fat knight Falstaff.
		These "merry wives" are not interested in the aging, overweight Falstaff as a suitor; however, for the sake of their own amusement, and to gain revenge for his indecent assumptions towards them both, they pretend to respond to his advances.
		Most critics consider Merry Wives to be one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, and the Falstaff of Merry Wives to be much inferior to the Falstaff of the two Henry IV plays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor (949 words)

	SparkNotes: The Merry Wives of Windsor: Analysis
		Their main point is that wives can be merry and faithful at the same time--that is, that they can lead boisterous, vivid lives without betraying their duties to their husbands--which Mr.
		The wives set out to dupe the sexually predatory Falstaff while curing Ford of his jealousy, bringing him to the same level of trust that Page feels.
		Merry Wives has a contemporary middle-class tone, emphasizing provinciality and kind of robust common sense, that is unique to Shakespeare's plays.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/merrywives/section10.rhtml (1019 words)

	NovelGuide: Merry Wives of Windsor: Essay Q&A
		The Merry Wives of Windsor is full of such ironies, and the humor of the various situations often depends on them.
		The merry wives have been pretending that he is about to return (in order to get Falstaff in the laundry basket), and are surprised when he actually does.
		The Merry Wives of Windsor is not generally considered the equal of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, such as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and many critics dismiss it as a farce rather than a comedy.
	www.novelguide.com /MerryWivesofWindsor/essayquestions.html (1481 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - The Merry Wives of Windsor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The plot revolves around Falstaff who is determined to have a fling with the wives of two of Windsor's wealthier citizens.
		Merry Wives of Windsor is an amusing production that will supply the best medicine, laughter.
		Merry Wives of Windsor can be seen September 1st and 2nd at 8 PM and September 3rd at 2 PM.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/merrywives.html (518 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor
		THE MERRY WIVES OF The play's sources are racy fabliaux, of both the Italian and Chaucerian type.
		If there's any truth behind the early dubious legend that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written in fourteen days at the prompting of Queen Elizabeth who wanted to see Falstaff in love, then it may be that a very early play was revised as a vehicle for the popular Falstaff character.
		The "primary subtext of Merry Wives is a nostalgic review of the rivalry for the hand of young Anne Cecil" (Brazil 125).
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/mww1.html (1015 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor press
		The result was The Merry Wives of Windsor, which happens to be this season's selection by Shakespeare on Wheels, the touring ensemble of the University of Maryland Baltimore County theater department.
		The Merry Wives of WIndsor returns to Baltimore August 12 at Leakin Park; September 2-3 at Coppin State University; and closes out its run at UMBC on October 2 and 3.
		Legend holds that Shakespeare wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor" because Queen Elizabeth I wanted to see more of Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight she enjoyed in the Henry IV plays.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~cobb/p/s/merry/merryprs.html (5692 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor - Incidental Music
		Sullivan composed his incidental music to Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor for a revival of the play which opened on 19 December 1874 at John Hollingshead's Gaiety Theatre, London - the same theatre where Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration, Thespis, had been the Christmas entertainment three years previously.
		I was rather dismayed when I first got the commission to do 'The Merry Wives' for I could see no opportunity for music.
		To Marc Shepherd's Merry Wives of Windsor discography.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/other_sullivan/windsor (413 words)

	Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor Summary
		Page expresses surprise that he is there--he quietly reassures her of his love--and the wives arrange for him to get in the basket.
		The wives discuss the beating Falstaff took and debate whether he has been punished enough, decide to tell their husbands, and to plan another encounter.
		Ford at the oak tree in Windsor Forest dressed as Herne the hunter, with antlers on his head, and where he will be attacked by fairies.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_merrywiveswindsor.html (2306 words)

	"The Merry Wives of Windsor" Continues at COM
		Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies and deals with the travails of various mismatched lovers in a suburban Elizabethan town.
		The wives are too smart for the fat old knight and they execute a hilarious series of embarrassments and humiliations to teach him a lesson about Windsor wives.
		Performances of Merry Wives of Windsor run from April 15th through May 9th in the Arena Theatre at College of the Mainland Community Theatre at 1200 Amburn Rd. in Texas City.
	www.com.edu /newsdesk/print.cfm?newsid=184 (432 words)

	Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		In the country village of Windsor, Justice Shallow and his nephew Slender complain to Parson Evans that Sir John Falstaff (from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2) has wronged them.
		The wives decide to actually tell their husband's the truth of the proceedings.
		They all decide to have the wives meet Falstaff at an oak at midnight, then have children dressed as fairies scare him.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/windsor (1285 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor/Nicolai
		Wives who are wise keep their eyes free from tears.
		I too, and soon, shall a merry wife of Windsor be.
		The Merry Wives of Windsor is a tale of intrigue, mistaken identity and retribution, all on a light-hearted scale
	www.btinternet.com /~englang/merry_wives_of_windsor.htm (1948 words)

	The Merry Wives Of Windsor
		Falstaff decides that a career seducing wealthy wives would be less dangerous than robbing people, so he writes identical love letters to the Wives of Windsor, Mrs.
		The Merry Wives can contain themselves no longer: they take their husbands into their confidence and all four plan a public humiliation of the old lecher.
		Then he's publicly humiliated by the Merry Wives and their now merry husbands.
	www.doxidelight.com /shakespeare/mww/mww.html (759 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
		According to legend, Will Shakespeare wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at the command of Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to have a comedy showing the Fat Knight Sir John Falstaff "in love" as part of a wedding celebration at Windsor Castle.
		Shakespeare's obedience to his sovereign in the matter of the plot of "Merry Wives" is more a matter of the letter than the spirit.
		The wives, bosom buddies, compare notes and are outraged at the knight's presumption.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/merry.html (1303 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
		Somehow, it's OK to laugh at people voluntarily poking fun at their portly bellies onstage and onscreen; it's some kind of weird comedy tradition that apparently stretches at least as far back as Shakespeare's time and still goes over like gangbusters.
		Wives is the story of an idyllic little community with a perfect little inn where everyone is polite, virtuous and wise, except for most of the characters in the play.
		Long past his knightly heyday, Falstaff still thinks he can juice two of Windsor's richer wives for their monetary pounds and their womanly charms.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/07.17.02/merrywives-0229.html (878 words)

	Full text and plot summary of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
		Full text and plot summary of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
		The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of the best loved of Shakespeare's comedies and also contains the highest proportion of prose of any of his plays.
		Its central character is Falstaff who had been a roaring success with audiences in Henry IV part i and part ii, although in this incarnation he bears little resemblance to his previous character.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/6/3/1078 (310 words)

	William Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor
		My merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons; and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places; for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.
		Marry, this is the short and the long of it: you have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis wonderful.
		Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house, by your consent, to take an ill advantage of his absence.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rbear/shake/mww.html (12787 words)

	Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 5 Page 4
		Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to whom you should have been a pander: over and above that you have suffered, I think to repay that money will be a biting affliction.
		Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her Master Slender hath married her daughter.
		By gar, I am cozened: I ha' married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy; it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Shakespeare/Wives/Wives5_4.htm (489 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Utah Shakespearean Festival
		This time he stoops to conquer the hearts of two Windsor ladies--never mind that both are married.
		The honorable wives are well aware of the rogue's intentions and turn Falstaff into a deserving dupe as they spin his attempted trysts into comic disaster.
	www.bard.org /Plays/wives.html (93 words)

	[NEohioPAL]Berko review: MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (GLTF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, mainly because he has taken Falstaff, the superbly developed character of the two Henry IV plays, and made him as a lesser character.
		These "merry wives" are not interested in the aging, overweight Falstaff as a suitor, but for the sake of their own amusement pretend to respond to his proposals.
		Falstaff is exposed as the fool he is, young love wins out and the merry wives are destined to live happily ever after.
	lists.fredsternfeld.com /pipermail/neohiopal/Week-of-Mon-20050725/017919.html (970 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 6/10/05
		When these merry wives discover that Falstaff has sent identical letters of seduction to each of them, they conspire to lead the rogue on in order to embarrass and humiliate him.
		The second problem is that, until he becomes a victim of the merry wives, Falstaff is played as a bombastic, unadulterated bully and thief.
		You see, Merry Wives is ideal for transposition because the bourgeois and haute bourgeois in the play offer, in crucial ways, mirror images of our friends and neighbors (but not you and me, of course).
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/nj/nj100.html (761 words)

	MWOW Home Page
		Select an image for information on that Merry Wives' show.
		Join the serving wenches of Windsor's Tavern in their gossiping and bawdy songs!
		This delightful children's show is fun for kids ages one to one hundred and one.
	www.mwow.net (38 words)

	JS Online:Merry wives of summer bring mirth to APT
		Merry wives of summer bring mirth to APT
		"Merry Wives" turns on that and the hubris Falstaff displays in believing any woman of even modest stature would want him.
		Under the direction of John Neville-Andrews, the APT production takes "Merry Wives" to a different level, dispelling the frequent belief that the play is one of Shakespeare's lesser works.
	www.jsonline.com /336157 (939 words)

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		In their provincial community, the upstanding citizens of Windsor live everyday lives—until Sir John Falstaff blows into town.
		But the Windsor Wives have minds, and plans, of their own.
		Student performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor are underwritten by
	www.chicagoshakes.com /wive.html (73 words)

	In Search of Shakespeare . "The Merry Wives of Windsor" \| PBS
		"The Merry Wives of Windsor" – they're merry, they're married, and they live in Windsor.
		The original show was probably just the Masque which now appears at the end of the play, performed for the Knights of the Garter celebrations at Windsor in April 1597.
		This masque was later incorporated into a full-length play, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", which Shakespeare wrote sometime between 1599 and 1600.
	www.pbs.org /shakespeare/works/work158.html (152 words)

	The Merry Wives of Windsor Encyclopedia Article @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Merry Wives of Windsor Encyclopedia Article @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)
		Much of the comedic effect of the play is derived from misunderstandings between characters.
		The likeliest explanation, if the Garter Feast theory is accepted, is that the play was written hastily, to order for a special occasion, within severe time restraints.
	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor (795 words)

	WINDSOR HOUSING FOR STUDENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Windsor, NC - The Albemarle Region Of North Carolina - History...
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		Windsor Butterfly Count - City of Windsor - Parks and Recreation...
	www.campushousinglist.com /2windsor (522 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
		There are poppings in and out of doors and windows; a pie fight; two chase scenes (one through the audience with water pistols); pop, rap and disco songs; and a feel-good finale with a nod to the musical HAIRSPRAY.
		(A lovely moment: after Falstaff’s second humiliation, the two wives smile and clink glasses; it is like a bass string being plucked to signal the end of a song.) Mr.
		Moriarty and his clowns achieve what they have set out to do --- to make you laugh, pure and simple --- and they are clearly having fun doing it, too, though I’m sure they would have reaped similar mirth on a bare stage and wearing doublets and hose.
	www.theatermirror.com /CRmwwtr.htm (455 words)

	SOW The Merry Wives of Windsor program
		With The Merry Wives of Windsor, SHAKESPEARE ON WHEELS marks its ninth summer season.
		Outraged when they receive identical love letters from Falstaff, the faithful wives turn their indignation to constructive and entertaining uses to teach the 'fat knight' a lesson.
		The complicated twists and turns of the plot are resolved in the woods near Windsor, in a fantastic finale that includes a stag, fairies, and mistaken identities.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~cobb/p/s/merry/merryprogram.html (1000 words)

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