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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
bookshelves: classic, amusing, autumn-2014, re-visit-2014, play-dramatisation
Read from January 01, 2008 to October 14, 2014
Setting: The play is nominally set in the early 1400s, during the same period as the Henry IV plays featuring Falstaff, but there is only one brief reference to this period, a line in which the character Fenton is said to have been one of Prince Hal's rowdy friends (he "kept company with the wild prince and Poins"). In all other respects, the play implies a contemporary setting of the Elizabethan era, circa 1600.
2014 re-visit is via FutureLearn and I can barely remember a thing about this one.
Instructions to us students: 'If you don’t have time to work through the whole play, some key scenes to try and read are:'
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 2 Scene 1
Act 3 Scene 3
Act 3 Scene 5
Act 4 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 5
Map of Warwickshire and Leicestershire by Christopher Saxton
c1475: This mace was originally used by Stratford-upon-Avon's Guild of the Holy Cross during the late 15th century.
a 1557 edition of Lily's grammar
The grammar school at Stratford-on-Avon
You would be right in thinking that this course is pretty much centred around Shakespeare’s World in 100 Objects.
There was a time when Sarah and Diana were referred to as The Merry Wives of Windsor. Brian Rix would have been hard pushed to ladle farce on so thick - marvellous.
2014 re-visit is via FutureLearn and I can barely remember a thing about this one.
Instructions to us students: 'If you don’t have time to work through the whole play, some key scenes to try and read are:'
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 2 Scene 1
Act 3 Scene 3
Act 3 Scene 5
Act 4 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 5
Map of Warwickshire and Leicestershire by Christopher Saxton c1475: This mace was originally used by Stratford-upon-Avon's Guild of the Holy Cross during the late 15th century. a 1557 edition of Lily's grammar The grammar school at Stratford-on-Avon You would be right in thinking that this course is pretty much centred around Shakespeare’s World in 100 Objects.There was a time when Sarah and Diana were referred to as The Merry Wives of Windsor. Brian Rix would have been hard pushed to ladle farce on so thick - marvellous.
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