The Merry Wives of Windsor 13 years old

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.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor Cast

Name	Character
Andrew Havill He was 46, now 59 years old	as Master Ford
Christopher Benjamin He was 76, now 89 years old	as Sir John Falstaff
Serena Evans She was 52, now 65 years old	as Mistress Page

The Merry Wives of Windsor Crew

Name	Department
William Shakespeare as Author. He was 447 (51) years old when He died	Writing
Nigel Hess as Original Music Composer. He was 57 (now 71) years old	Sound