The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare · c. 1597 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

Short of money in Windsor, Falstaff sends identical love letters to two well-off wives, who compare them within the hour. Their revenges, and a jealous husband working in disguise, bring in laundry baskets, cudgels, an oak tree and a company of counterfeit fairies. The trickster tricked.

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• companion to ↑ Henry IV, Part 1
  William Shakespeare · c. 1597 CE · Play
• shares sources with ↑ The Merchant of Venice
  William Shakespeare · c. 1596 CE · Play

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