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139 The Eastcheap world extends Hal’s range of roles. Mimicking the tavern drawer (barman), he shows that he can “drink with any ...
WIVES MAY BE MERRY AND YET HONEST TOO THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (1597–1598) ...
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142 I n Windsor, Justice Shallow threatens Falstaff for poaching deer. Falstaff cheerily admits his misdemeanors and trouble is ...
143 pay Falstaff to seduce his wife on his behalf. Unaware of the plans the mistresses Ford and Page have for Falstaff, Ford ang ...
144 T he Merry Wives Of Windsor is one of the most enjoyed but least celebrated of Shakespeare’s plays. Its tale of a lovable ro ...
145 knighthood and his eloquence but he’s in for a surprise. The very biddable housewives who he thinks will make easy pickings, ...
WE HAVE HEARD THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT HENRY IV PART 2 (1597–1598) ...
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148 T he presenter Rumour begins the play by revealing the lie that’s on its way to old Northumberland: that Hotspur has defeate ...
149 financial, keeps him in London. There the Lord Chief Justice rebukes him for dishonorably misleading Prince Hal, and Mistres ...
150 F alstaff remembers hearing London’s church clocks chiming midnight when, as a student at the Inns of Court, he burned the c ...
151 them ill: “we are all diseased, / And with our surfeiting and wanton hours / Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, / ...
152 HENRY IV PART 2 companion, might have misused their friendship by claiming that his sister Nell and Hal will marry. Though P ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 153 before establishing the details of his promised redress. Once the lords are powerless, John conde ...
OUT ON THEE SEEMING! I WILL WRITE AGAINST IT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1598–1599) ...
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156 N ews comes to Leonato, Governor of Messina, that the victorious Don Pedro of Aragon will shortly return from war and that C ...
157 Claudio and Hero to speak to one another for the first time. While they whisper together, Beatrice fends off a throwaway mar ...
158 M uch Ado About Nothing presents “seeming” in several guises. The wordplay on nothing/noting in the title would have alerted ...
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