TY - BOOK AU - Shakespeare,William AU - Guizot,François TI - Les joyeuses Bourgeoises de Windsor AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Comedy plays KW - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Drama KW - Married women -- Drama KW - Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England) -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Joyeuses_Comm%C3%A8res_de_Windsor; Release date is 2007-03-01; Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les joyeuses Bourgeoises de Windsor" by William Shakespeare is a comedy first published in 1602. The impoverished Sir John Falstaff schemes to seduce two wealthy married women for financial gain, sending them identical love letters. The clever wives discover his plot and orchestrate a series of humiliating tricks against the foolish knight. Meanwhile, three suitors compete for the hand of Anne Page, each backed by different family members. Set in Elizabethan England, the play weaves together romantic deception, jealous husbands, and communal revenge in Shakespeare's comedy of middle-class life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20720 ER -