class 4-10-13
Agenda QuizPlot/Sentence Questions Performance 1 Discussion of Comedy in Merry Wives Discussion of Serious Comedy in Merry Wives Quiz What frightens Falstaff while he is at Mrs. Ford’s house? In what humiliating place does Falstaff hide? After he hides there,…
Mr. Ford V. Mr. Page
I think as being a husband Mr. ford should trust his wife because she is his life partner. As compare to Mr. Page, Mr. Ford is a bad husband. why would Mr. Ford wants to find out about mistress Ford’s…
Mrs. Ford’s wrongful move
If I were Mrs. Ford I would have never planned that revenge against Falstaff. Instead to make herself look trustworthy in front of her husband, she should have handed the letter to him. The revenge that Mrs. Page and Mrs….
Trustworthy or Deceptive?
After receiving the letters from Falstaff, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford plan their revenge. They decide to play along and lead Falstaff on. However, as we have seen previously, Ford is quite distrusting of his wife, while Page is the…
class 4-8-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/sentence questions Globe Merry Wives of Windsor My scene Your scenes Discussion of act 2 Quiz From whom does Mistress Page receive a letter? In relation to the letter Mistress Ford receives, what’s funny about that letter? After…
The Difference Between Two Marriages
Through the first two acts of Merry Wives of Windsor, it is obvious that Shakespeare is comparing two, differing marriages. Ford is extremely distrusting of his wife, Mistress Ford, and assumes the worst when he hears of Falstaff’s deception to seduce…
class 4-3-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/Word questions Comedy (Genre) and Carnival Reading and Performing Merry Wives Quiz Other than Falstaff, name a character in Merry Wives of Windsor whom we’ve met before in Henry V. When the play begins, what or who…
class 4-1-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/Word Questions Desire and Patriarchy in Synetic Tempest and play text Discussion of Act 5 Thinking about Performance Quiz 9 When Prospero has his brother, Alonso and Alonso’s brother in his control, what does he do to them?…
Prospero…the all controlling!
When first reading this play you think that Prospero is all out for revenge. He controls all the characters around him and seems very selfish. The last act though, I almost had a second thought about his motives. It almost…