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    Custom comedy "the merry wives of Windsor" happened in England near the ancient city of Windsor. The play revolves around two clues: one main line is that John Falstaff’s experience intending to cheat money with Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, eventually to be fooled; another line is love history between Anne and Fenton. Two clues interweave together to show the characteristics of each role in the incisive performance. Shakespeare produced many comedies and most of these works indirectly reflect

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    Degraded Role of Women in The Merry Wives of Windsor     In Shakespeare's comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, there are two plots that ultimately converge into the concept of marriage; one is the antics executed by the wives, and the other is the marriage of Anne Page. Both of these plots subversively yield a disheartening attitude towards the view of women within the scope of the play. Wives in The Merry Wives of Windsor are not acknowledged as much beyond commodities, not to be entrusted

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    Benjamin Book Professor Beliavsky and Dean Sugarman Verdi and Shakespeare 5/14/2018 The Comic vs. Tragic Endings of Othello and the Merry Wives of Windsor While tragedies and comedies have some similar characteristics, there are some key differences that set them apart: tragedies focus more on characters to make the audience emotionally invested in each one and eventually in their inevitable downfall. On the other hand, comedies tend to focus more on situations than on characters preventing the

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    appears to each character as honest as he manipulates the tragic hero Othello towards his end. At the final scene Othello follows a trend in tragedy where the characters realize what Iago was doing far too late. Similarly, in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Alice Ford along with her friends manipulate Sir John Falstaff in order to teach him a lesson. But in a comedy like this, when Falstaff realizes he has been fooled, in the end everyone returns to who they originally were with slight

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    The American Player Theather’s performance of the play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, is a complete success when it is compared to the original script by William Shakespeare; the changes of scenes, the acting, and overall production contributes to this successful performance. The performance of the American Player Theater has minor changes in dialogue and also a deletion of a scene. As one follows the script during the performance, the characters recite the script. In a lot of times, there are a couple

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    Imagine a fool… you probably picture a person in tights and a weird cap juggling balls, or a cartoon character dramatically slipping on a banana peel. Both of these are prime examples, but on a less conspicuous level, there are fools as well. In The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, there are fools of all kinds. In the traditional sense of a fool, there is Falstaff, a big, boisterous man who falls for the same trick a few too many times. However, the funnier characters are sometimes the ones

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    Comedy is by far the most influential factor in deciding whether or not a story is entertaining to its audience due to its ability to create a more relaxed and pleasurable environment in the plot. From the playful awkwardness of Anne Shirley to the witty banter of detectives Tommy and Tuppence, it evident that comedic characters have always been appreciated and acknowledged in literature. Sir Toby Belch is but one of the many amusing characters found today and is by far one of the most humorous.

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    You Do Not Know Who I Am

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    You do not know who I am. You may faintly remember my name a few days from now. You may have seen me before, sitting alone in a park or crossing the street. You see many people in during your life; only a few are worth remembering. And yet we are still here. We all have a chapter in the book of life. Now, please, take a moment to get to know me—to be aware of sonder and how, despite us all sharing the same small planet, it is this simple essay that will introduce me to you. This is my story. I have

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    The Unaccounted for Period of William Shakespeare's Life William Shakespeare was born on April 26th 1564[1] in Stratford on-Avon to parents John and Mary. Growing up, he received a good education for a country boy of that period. He attended the village elementary school, was tutored by his mother and others, and learned a great deal by himself[2]. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, had his first child, Susanna in 1583 followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. Documentation

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    What is honour asks Falstaff in the Shakespeare's play Henry the fourth. Supposing that Shakespeare drew from his own person opinions when using the character Falstaff to answer this question we can gain some insight into Shakespeare's viewpoints on honour, or at the very least a view of honour that some people subscribe too. During Falstaff soliloquies on honour, he makes several points to devalue the idea of honour. In comparing the ideas brought fourth by the character Falstaff the aim of the

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