The Merry Wives of Windsor

Overview

The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 27, 2011

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Shakespeare's Globe

Cast

Andrew Havill,Serena Evans,Gregory Gudgeon,Gareth Armstrong,Sue Wallace,Ceri-lyn Cissone,Peter Gale,Nathan Amzi,Barnaby Edwards,Michael Garnerand 7 more

Director

Christopher Luscombe

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Nigel Hess

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1735918