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Article: Money changes everything: quarto and folio The Merry Wives of Windsor and the case for revision.(Theater review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- June 22, 2006
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While countless stagings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have been set in a bucolic "merrye olde England," Bill Alexander's 1985 RSC rendition took Shakespeare's representation of a 1590s English bourgeoisie, numerically anagrammatized its temporal setting, and placed it in the 1950s Macmillan years of postwar prosperity in Britain. Alexander depicted a suburban middle class enjoying the power of newfound affluence in an era whose watchword was "you never had it so good." Mistresses Ford and Page plotted their revenge on Falstaff while sitting under hair dryers and sipped gin and tonics in a comfortable living room while Ford ransacked the infamous buckbasket. One of the ...
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