Merry Wives of Windsor, The

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.

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Example Sentences

In the playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s modern take on Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” the setting is Harlem instead of Berkshire, England; its characters West African, not English.

From New York Times

In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the wives contrive a plot against the amorous Falstaff which involves an arrangement to meet him under an oak tree in what is now Windsor Great Park.

From BBC

Then came the Third Lady in "Magic Flute," the Third Grace in "Tannh�user," Martha in "Faust," Orlofsky in "Fledermaus," Frau Reich in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," the Gr�fin in "Trompeter von S�kkingen," Pamela in "Fra Diavolo," Witch in "Haensel und Gretel"; and finally "Carmen."

From Project Gutenberg

This period would, I think, end with the lighter plays of Shakespeare, such as The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, and perhaps Hamlet.

From Project Gutenberg

The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew, are all pure Comedy; the rest, however they are call'd, have something of both kinds.

From Project Gutenberg