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description: The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. The Merry Wives of Windsor features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It has been adapted for the opera on occasions. The play anachronistically places Sir John Falstaff, who had previously appeared in Shakespeare's plays about the medieval King Henry IV and set circa 1400, in the contemporary setting of the Elizabethan era, circa 1600.
title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
titlecomplete: The Merry Wives of Windsor
characters: Robert Shallow, Host of the Garter Inn, John Rugby, Doctor Caius, Mistress Margaret (Meg) Page, Corporal Nim, Mistress Alice Ford, Parson Hugh Evans, Anne (Nan) Page, Robin, Page to Falstaff, George Page, Abraham Slender, Peter Simple, Sir John Falstaff, William Page, Fenton, Mistress Nell Quickly, Robert, servant in the Ford household, Ancient Pistol, John, servant in the Ford household, Bardolph, Frank Ford
genres: Fiction, Plays, Humor, Theatre, Classics, British Literature, Drama, Comedy, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 12843
publisher: BBC Audiobooks