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Home › Culture › Literature › Shakespeare › Merry Wives of Windsor

Merry Wives of Windsor

Characters

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
FENTON
SHALLOW – a country justice
SLENDER – cousin to SHALLOW
MR. FORD, MR. PAGE – two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor
WILLIAM PAGE – a boy, son to MR. PAGE
SIR HUGH EVANS – a Welsh parson
DR. CAIUS – a French physician
Host of the Garter Inn
BARDOLPH, PISTOL, NYM – followers of FALSTAFF
ROBIN – page to FALSTAFF
SIMPLE – servant to SLENDER
RUGBY – servant to DR. CAIUS
MRS. FORD
MRS. PAGE
MRS. ANN PAGE – her daughter, in love with FENTON
MRS. QUICKLY – servant to DR. CAIUS
Servants to PAGE, FORD, etc.

Setting

PLAY
Windsor, and parts adjacent.

ACT I
Scene i: Windsor. Before Page’s house.
Scene ii: The same.
Scene iii: A room in the Garter Inn.
Scene iv: A room in Dr. Caius’s house.

ACT II
Scene i: Before Page’s house.
Scene ii: A room in the Garter Inn.






Scene iii: Windsor Park.

ACT III
Scene i: A field near Frogmore.
Scene ii: The street in Windsor.
Scene iii: A room in Ford’s house.
Scene iv: A room in Page’s house.
Scene v: A room in the Garter Inn..

ACT IV
Scene i: The street.
Scene ii: A room in Ford’s house.
Scene iii: A room in the Garter Inn.
Scene iv: A room in Ford’s house.
Scene v: A room in the Garter Inn.
Scene vi: Another room in the Garter Inn.

ACT V
Scene i: A room in the Garter Inn.
Scene ii: Windsor Park.
Scene iii: The street in Windsor.
Scene iv: Windsor Park.
Scene v: Another part of the Park.

Soliloquy

Act IV: Scene v
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF: I would all the world might be cozened; for I have been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to the ear of the court how I have been transformed, and how my transformation hath been washed and cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat, drop by drop, and liquor fishermen’s boots with me; I warrant they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered myself at primero. Well, if my mind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. —




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