Modern Library Classics: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Paperback)

from meandmybooks

Not really my sort of thing, but "Merry Wives" is so much better than some of the other comedies I've read this year (Loves Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors), that I'm giving it three stars, just in recognition of that. This is very silly, frivolous, and shallow, b...

from amerynth

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" is definitely not Shakespeare's strongest work. I initially found it very difficult to follow, given the multitude of characters introduced off the bat and the interesting dialects. I found the play got better as it got moving along-- as the merry wives work hard to t...

from Laurochka

A farcical comedy of love and affairs. Entertaining!

from MrsLee

I really enjoyed this tale. The wives are my heroes and I thought the interplay between them and their husbands was honest and hilarious. I loved that they were not taken in for a minute by Falstaff's flattery. It truly is a very respectful view of women and their intelligence, I wish more modern...

from birdie.newborn

Falstaff remains a comic figure of large proportions even without Prince Hal as a countercharacter. He schemes as usual, only this time he's the dupe and doesn't know it.