Judy Davis Videos : The Merry Wives of Windsor - end of play, part 1 of 2

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The Merry Wives of Windsor - end of play, part 1 of 2

Act 5, scene 4, and Act 5, scene 5, to line 106 or so (Arden edition) by William Shakespeare These final scenes were by far the best part of this production. as part of the "Fawlty Towers" Shakespeare trilogy, go here to see John Cleese as Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew": www.youtube.com and here to see Andrew Sachs as Trinculo in "The Tempest": www.youtube.com Prunella Scales ... Mistress Page Judy Davis ... Mistress Ford Michael Bryant ... Doctor Caius Richard Griffiths ... Sir John Falstaff Tenniel Evans ... Sir Hugh Evans Elizabeth Spriggs ... Mistress Quickly Nigel Terry ... Pistol Harvey Brown ... Fairy Kerry Cavalli ... Fairy Adam Cooper ... Fairy Helen Grey ... Fairy Simon Kemp ... Fairy Wayne Phelan ... Fairy Tony Young ... Fairy Directed by David Hugh Jones (as David Jones) Original Music by Dominic Muldowney from Samuel Johnson: Notes to Shakespeare: [I'll be horn-mad] There is no image which our author appears so fond of, as that of cuckold's horns. Scarcely a light character is introduced that does not endearor to produce merriment by some allusion to horned husbands. As he wrote his plays for the stage rather than the press, he perhaps reviewed them seldom, and did not observe this repetition, or finding the jest, however, frequent, still successful, did not think correction necessary.

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