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hello and welcome to the introductory
lecture for our production of The Merry
Wives of Windsor directed at the globe
in 2019 by Elle while as the title
suggests the story takes place in a
little English town not far from London
famous then and now for its massive
royal castle fat knight Sir John
Falstaff has been causing trouble among
the locals and magistrate justice
shallow wants to haul him into a
courtroom peacemaking Welsh parson Hugh
Evans suggests instead that they focus
on the possibility of a marriage between
shallows hopeless cousins slender and
heiress and page whose father George is
a buddy of Falstaff's we seem discovered
that Faust off is broke and his solution
is to seduce his neighbour mistress Ford
because as he says the rumor goes she
has the rule of her husband's purse and
while he's about it he's going to try it
on with mistress page to Falstaff's
cack-handed attempt at seduction doesn't
prevent Mistress Ford's husband from
developing a raging case of suspicion
but the Merry Wives never drop the ball
and manage the subsequent confusion with
aplomb meanwhile young and Paige's
marriage continues to provoke
competition with slender placed against
the malapropism
French doctor Caius and the suave young
gentleman Fenton for her hand
luckily Anne has the help of cunning
mistress quickly to keep the suitors in
check so so far so romantic comedy but
there are a few things that make merry
wives one of Shakespeare's most unusual
not to say most appealing plays and the
first is that it's his only comedy to be
set in
England and when you see the show you'll
hear about lots of accurate local ones
our detail the park and castle Datchet
Mead the Garter in nearby communities
like Frogmore Redding Maidenhead eaten
and Brentford I mean this isn't Verona
or Bohemia or Sicily where vanishingly
few of Shakespeare's first audiences
would have been the world of Mary wives
is out of ordinary middle-class people
in a small country town the direct
ancestors of the characters of today's
sitcoms the comedy is rooted in real
life the citizens of Windsor talk about
venison pies and buck baskets and posits
not international politics and intrigue
no less a figure than found in communist
thinker Friedrich Engels declared that
the first act of merry wives alone
contains more life and reality than all
German literature something which is
certainly not true today if it ever was
but suggests the impact this slice of
English life has had on writers and
artists over the centuries we might
however reasonably ask when our
light-hearted comedy is supposed to be
taking place everything about the play
including a glancing reference to the
Queen suggests that Shakespeare was
writing about his present day at the
very end of the sixteenth century but
those of you who saw our globe ensemble
history plays last summer or have seen
those plays before will already be
familiar with Falstaff and mistress
quickly as well as arthur merry wives
characters including Falstaff's
followers
Bardolph pistol and NIMH from Henry the
fourth parts one and two and Henry the
fifth where they former a sort of
disreputable gang around prints how in
the first two plays and then come across
in henry v you'll also remember justice
shallow as the nostalgic country judge
in Henry the fourth part two six of the
merry wives principles seemed therefore
to anchor us in the civil war torn
killing fields of the early 15th century
nearly 200 years before Shakespeare
seems to set his sunny committee as a
different sort of stock character might
say this seems like a fairly major rift
in the space-time continuum it all
threatens to get terribly confusing
Falstaff seems not yet to know mistress
quickly with whom he evidently enjoyed a
long relationship in the histories and
it's the well-connected modern gentleman
master Fenton
who is said to have kept company with
the wild Prince how and poins that's one
of the plays only explicit references to
the world of the histories and it's
attached to a new character who didn't
even appear in them now I suspect if we
seek for watertight logic we're going to
be disappointed maybe it makes more
sense to think about the play as a bit
like Marvel or Star Wars franchise in
which the story takes place in a
flexible narrative universe established
by prior fictions Shakespeare doesn't
seem to be overly concerned about time
period and perhaps neither should we be
merry wives actually offers particularly
wide scope for situational reimagining
director al Weill has set her production
in the 1930s a time when one of the
plays generic descendants Hollywood
screwball comedy was flourishing on
screen the plays unusual repurposing of
pre-existing characters helps to explain
one of the wackiest stories that's
become attached to it since the 18th
century critics and commentators have
repeated the claim
that the play was personally
commissioned by Queen Elizabeth the
first because it said she wanted to see
Sir John Falstaff in love and
Shakespeare dashed it off in a few days
to please his Moloch
despite the implausibility of this tale
there is no evidence of such a
commission and we might note that
Falstaff isn't actually in love with
mistresses for Dan page it's proven very
difficult to shake off it's almost
certainly not true but I think it's a
fascinating piece of fakery as it
reflects a determination to associate
the play and by extension Falstaff as
the comic central role with glamorous
court culture and with the tastes of
royalty rather than the environment
Merry Wives actually celebrates that of
ordinary life in a provincial English
town as you'll see very little about the
play celebrates the values of court
culture if anyone is a representative of
the elite in Merry Wives its Falstaff a
knight of the realm and he is the worm
in the bard of an otherwise harmonious
and well ordered society at the end of
the play Falstaff has lost any high
society luster that he might have
started with we really get a sense of
Falstaff's
compromised position in act 4 scene 4
Falstaff's landlord the host of the
Garter in the closest Falstaff will ever
get to that noble order shows us the
extent of his landed estate
there's his chamber he says his house
his castle his standing bed and
truckle-bed so it's from this rather
squalid bedsit that Falstaff sallies
forth in utter self-belief to seduce the
respectable wives of the town and he is
variously humiliated assaulted drenched
and finally publicly shamed in a truly
creative act of trickery and
exposure I think it's precisely
Falstaff's embarrassing fall
that explains the hokey story about
Queen Elizabeth's Commission you see
Shakespeare experts fell out of love
with Mary wives in the 18th century
although it's always been popular with
audiences the mostly male critical
establishment was uncomfortable with the
idea of Shakespeare's greatest comic
creation being bested by a pair of
bourgeois provincial women it's probably
a coincidence that the story about the
Queen only started doing the rounds once
critical opinion had turned against the
play as something not fitted to the
cosmic genius of the great man of
dramatic letters but the idea of a
commission from royalty responded to by
Shakespeare in haste and without much
enthusiasm became an excuse for the
plays perceived ethical flaws but it's
precisely that refreshing power balance
that's the focus of current criticism
and appreciation much of it coming from
feminist scholarship the plays been
called feminist citizen revenge comedy
by the academic Susan goosey O'Malley
and in that analysis
she's combined elements of two different
early modern dramatic genres citizen
comedy and revenge tragedy and suggests
that the play radicalizes both through
its focus on the role of women in the
society of windsor and the power and
influence those women have to order
their society as they see fit
after years of critical condescension
then the play is finally getting the
sort of love from scholars that it's
always received from satisfied audiences
thank you so much for watching and enjoy
our show the globe is temporarily closed
but our hearts and minds are open we
don't receive any regular government
subsidy so please donate if you can to
help us continue to share Shakespeare's
gift of stories in this wooden
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truckle bed::noun | Spocien Dictionary

truckle bed

noun

/'trəkəl_bɛd/

a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

Type	Words
Synonyms	truckle, trundle, trundle bed
Type of	bed

How to pronounce truckle bed in English?

truckle bed::noun | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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