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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor

(2011)

Overview

The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.

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  1. Director : Christopher Luscombe
  2. Cast : Christopher Benjamin,Serena Evans,Andrew Havill,Gerard McCarthy,Sarah Woodward,Nathan Amzi,Gareth Armstrong,William Belchambers,Philip Bird,Ceri-lyn Cissone,Barnaby Edwards,Peter Gale,Michael Garner,Gregory Gudgeon,Paul Woodson,Sue Wallace,Edward Holtom

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Original TitleThe Merry Wives of Windsor

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2011-06-27

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 02h 15m

Production CompaniesShakespeare's Globe

Genres

  • Comedy

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