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“They make much ado about nothing because they know nothing will come of nothing, and so they speak again.”
Much Ado About Nothing An Introduction By Dennis Abrams Set in the Sicilian town of Messina, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing positively sizzles with holiday spirit. Its rich humor was, in fact, singled out early by his contemporaries: in … Continue reading
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds,/Or bends with the remover to remove…”
William Shakespeare, Sonnet #116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9x5TT3rDs SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an … Continue reading
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“If it should come to the ear of the court how I have been transformed, and how my transformation hath been washed and cudgeled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by drop, and liquor fishermen’s boots with me.”
The Merry Wives of Windsor Act Four By Dennis Abrams ————————- Act Four: At Ford’s house, Falstaff’s renewed attempt to seduce Mistress Ford is stalled once again by the arrival of Mistress Page, warning that an angry Ford is on … Continue reading
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“I had rather be set quick i’th’earth,/And bowled to death with turnips.”
The Merry Wives of Windsor Act Three By Dennis Abrams —————————- Act Three: the duel between Caius and Evans fails to occur when the Host of the Garter sends them to different places; reconciled, the two men agree to be … Continue reading
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“What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor?…Did you ever hear the like?”
The Merry Wives of Windsor Act Two By Dennis Abrams ————————————- Act Two: Mistresses Page and Ford have been sent identical love letters by Falstaff. The two (not unlike, let’s say Lucy and Ethel), plot revenge: they will pretend to … Continue reading
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“Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford’s wife. I spy entertainment in her…”
The Merry Wives of Windsor Act One By Dennis Abrams ——————————— Major Characters Townspeople of Windsor Margaret Page (the first “wife”) George Page, Margaret Page’s husband Anne Page, their daughter William Page, their son, a schoolboy Alice Ford (the second … Continue reading
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“The question is — is it the SAME Falstaff?”
The Merry Wives of Windsor An Introduction By Dennis Abrams The only comedy of Shakespeare’s that is set in England from first to last, The Merry Wives of Windsor delights in its social and geographical setting, turning away from the … Continue reading
“Mine appetite I never more will grind/On newer proof, to try an older friend,/A god in love, to whom I am confined.”
Shakespeare Sonnet #110 SONNET 110 Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new; Most true … Continue reading
“No one in the play understands Falstaff fully, any more than Hamlet was understood by the persons around him. They are both men of genius.”
Henry IV Part Two Act Five, Part Three By Dennis Abrams ————————- I’ve decided to give the last word on Act Five and the Rejection of Falstaff to one of my favorite critics of Shakespeare. A.C. Bradley, who gave this … Continue reading
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The Play's The Thing 