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The title page from a 1565 printing of Giovanni Fiorentino's 14th century tale, Il Pecorone. The wives meet Falstaff, and almost immediately the "fairies" attack. Slender, Caius, and Fenton steal away their brides-to-be during the chaos, and the rest of the characters reveal their true identities to Falstaff.
This is a list of translations of works by William Shakespeare. Each table is arranged alphabetically by the specific work, then by the language of the translation. Translations are then sub-arranged by date of publication (earliest-latest). Where possible, the date of publication given is the date of the first edition by that translator.
Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, having bribed their way out of prison, appear in the first act explaining to Falstaff how they were arrested. They later plot to disguise themselves as gentlewomen to find rich husbands, targeting Robert Shallow and his young cousin Abraham Slender. Quickly intends to marry Shallow, and Doll to marry Slender.
Shallow and Silence by J. Coghlan, c.1820. Robert Shallow is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.He is a wealthy landowner and Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire, who at the time of The Merry Wives of Windsor is said to be over 80 ("four score years and upward").
Abraham, a Montague servant, fights Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes spelled "Abram". Sometimes spelled "Abram". Achilles ( myth ) is portrayed as a former hero, who has become lazy and devoted to the love of Patroclus, in Troilus and Cressida .
Translator Target language A. de Herz: Romanian: August Wilhelm Schlegel: German: Avraham Shlonsky: Hebrew [1]: Barbu Solacolu: Romanian [2]: Boris Pasternak: Russian ...
Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2.She is a prostitute who frequents the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap.Doll is close friends with Mistress Quickly, the proprietress of the tavern, who procures her services for Falstaff.
Sir John in Love is an opera in four acts by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.The libretto, by the composer himself, is based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and supplemented with texts by Philip Sidney, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher.