Agenda

QuizPlot/Sentence Questions
Performance 1
Discussion of Comedy in Merry Wives
Discussion of Serious Comedy in Merry Wives

Quiz

1. What frightens Falstaff while he is at Mrs. Ford’s house?
2. In what humiliating place does Falstaff hide?
3. After he hides there, what further unpleasant and humiliating thing happens to him?
4. What humiliates Mr. Ford in this act (two possible answers)?
5. Why does Mr. Page not want Fenton to marry Anne–a concern about Fenton that Fenton himself confesses to, but says he has moved beyond?

Bonus: which is the only character in this act who talks exclusively in verse (i.e. poetry rather than prose)?