Merry Wives And Others

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082231476

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of language, but also places elements of its plot firmly in a continental, specifically Italian, tradition of romantic comedy. It draws out the complexities of Merry Wives as a multi-plot play, and takes a fresh and challenging look at both textual and dating issues; a facsimile of the first Quarto is included as an appendix. The play's extensive performance history, both dramatic and operatic, is fully explored and discussed. This is a significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration. The commentary is exceptionally detailed and attentive to questions of language and meaning. John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Quarterly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781621072966

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The Merry Wives of Windsor in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version) by Anonim Pdf

You've probably heard of Sir John Falstaff--but you don't really quite know him until you see him comedically in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor." He's a real comedian...that is if you can understand what he's talking about! If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Author : Penelope Fritzer,Bartholomew Bland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786480645

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Merry Wives and Others by Penelope Fritzer,Bartholomew Bland Pdf

In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with the 1920s and continuing through today, cover the different time periods and the foremost American domestic humorists, and the humor written by surrogate parents, grown children about their childhood families, husbands, and Canadian and English writers. Also covered are the differences among various writers toward traditional domestic roles--some, like Erma Bombeck and Judith Viorst, embraced them, while others, like Caryl Kristenson and Marilyn Kentz, resisted them. Common themes, such as the isolation and competitiveness of housework, home as an idealized metaphysical goal and ongoing physical challenge, and the urban, suburban, and rural life, are also explored.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Married women
ISBN : OCLC:320502063

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780451529961

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedy of love, jealousy, revenge, and merriment. Disreputable Sir John Falstaff decides to seduce two wealthy married women to refill his dwindling coffers and soon finds himself outwitted by Mistress Ford and Mistress Page in this delightful, farcical comedy. This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: • An overview of William Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater • A special introduction to the play by the editor, William Green • A note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived The Merry Wives of Windsor • Dramatic criticism from Northrop Frye, mark Van Doren, Herbert Whittaker, and others • A stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format • Recommended readings

Author : Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317698340

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin Pdf

The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.

Author : Fawn Weaver
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781400205059

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Happy Wives Club by Fawn Weaver Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller! One woman undertakes a worldwide search to learn the secrets of a great marriage—and finds one foundational truth that could change everything. Fawn Weaver was a happily married woman running a successful business—and then something happened. Maybe it was divorce rate reports on the evening news, The Real Housewives of Orange County, or any daytime talk show where husbands and wives dramatically reveal their betrayals. Everywhere she looked, Fawn saw negative portrayals of marriage dominating the airwaves and dooming everyone to failure. Looking at Keith, the love of her life, she knew that wasn’t true. She was determined to find and connect with women just like her—happy and optimistic about marriage, deeply in love with her spouse, and committed to building a strong marriage that stands the test of time. On a whim,she started the blog HappyWivesClub.com and sent the link to a few of new friends. What started as a casual invitation to five women exploded into an international online club with 150,000 members in more than 100 countries. Happy Wives Club is Fawn’s journey across the world to meet her friends and discover what makes their marriages great. Join her on this exciting, exotic trip across six continents and through more than eighteen cities. Walk the streets of Mauritius, the historic ruins in Italy, and the vistas of New Zealand and Australia. Go from Cape Town to London, Manila to Buenos Aires, Winnipeg to Zagreb. Along the way, you will meet everyday women whose marriage secrets span cultures. You will hear their stories, witness their love, and be inspired by the proof that happy, healthy marriages do exist—and yours can be one of them! It turns out great marriages are all around us—when we look for them. Go on a trip with Fawn and learn the best marriage secrets the world has to offer.

Author : William Shakespeare,Callan Davies,Sarah Neville,Professor of Shakespeare Studies Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192873576

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare,Callan Davies,Sarah Neville,Professor of Shakespeare Studies Emma Smith Pdf

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

Author : Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317698357

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The Merry Wives of Windsor by Evelyn Gajowski,Phyllis Rackin Pdf

The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:757359787

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The merry wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368628758

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Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082502041

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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400444826

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Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312177488

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The Shakespearean Marriage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of personal happiness.

Author : Joan Hess
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312365640

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The Merry Wives of Maggody by Joan Hess Pdf

The return, after a three-year absence, of Sheriff Arly Hanks and the strange, misbegotten town of Maggody, Arkansas. Arly is facing a complicated murder investigation for which darned near everyone in town is a suspect.