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“We look back at Shakespeare and regret our absence from him because it seems an absence from reality.”
Conclusion to The Play’s The Thing Part Two By Dennis Abrams ———————————- Honestly, I can’t believe it’s over. For two and half years, We’ve been reading and talking and thinking about Shakespeare. And to help bring this to a close, … 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
The Play's The Thing 