Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of WindsorThree Early Comedies Love's Labor's Lost Farce and fun follow when a young king and his three friends vow to give up women for a year—just as a pretty princess and her three ladies-in-waiting arrive—in a delightful play that ends with one of Shakespeare’s loveliest songs. The Two Gentlemen of Verona In this lyrical comedy, two friends are infatuated with the same woman, while a jilted girl disguised as a boy and a clownish servant with a raffish mutt set the scene for laughter and a timeless story of love. The Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare’s famous rogue, Falstaff, woos two married women with identical love letters—and becomes the focus of a hilarious comedy when the women conspire to teach him a lesson. |
Contents
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Date and Text | 173 |
Further Reading | 193 |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Stage | 207 |
Date and Text | 325 |
Further Reading | 359 |
Introduction | 365 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor on Screen | 381 |
Date and Text | 509 |
Further Reading | 529 |
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ARMADO Bardolph beauty BEROWNE BOYET CAIUS comedy comic COSTARD court cuckold disguised Doctor Don Felix doth DUKE DUMAINE Eglamour Enter EVANS Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies FALSTAFF father Felismena Fenton follow fool forsworn Garter gentle Gentlemen of Verona give grace hast hath hear heart heaven HOLOFERNES honor horns HOST humor husband Jaquenetta JULIA KATHARINE KING King of Navarre lady LANCE letter Lionello LONGAVILLE look lord Love's Labor's Lost lover LUCETTA madam maid Malapropism MARIA Marry Master Brook Master Doctor means Merry Wives Mistress Ford Mistress Quickly MOTE NATHANIEL Navarre never night oath OUTLAW PANTHINO PISTOL play play's Pompey pray PRINCESS PROTEUS quarto quoth ROSALINE Rugby servant Shakespeare's SHALLOW Silvia Sir John Sir John Falstaff Slender speak SPEED Stratford-upon-Avon sweet tell thee Thurio unto VALENTINE wife Windsor woman word young