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The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor [1] is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor , also the location of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England .
For one of New York City’s first major theater events in 16 months, eager audiences cannot do better than reveling in the natural splendors of Central Park’s Delacorte Theater for the gleeful ...
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").
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle (Falstaff, or The Three Jokes) is a dramma giocoso in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
It is mostly based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor. [20] Falstaff (1913), a "symphonic study" (or symphonic poem) by Edward Elgar, depicts Falstaff's life. [21] At the Boar's Head (1925), a short opera by Gustav Holst based on the Henry IV plays. [22] Sir John in Love (1929), an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of ...
Articles related to the play The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597). Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C.
Falstaff's Wedding (1760 and 1766) is a play by William Kenrick.It is a sequel to Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.Most of the characters are carried over from the two Shakespeare plays.
In The Merry Wives of Windsor she works as nurse to Caius, a French physician, but primarily acts as a messenger between other characters, communicating love notes in a plot largely concerned with misdirected letters. [8] At the end she takes the role of the queen of the fairies in the practical joke played on Falstaff.