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    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. (Summary by Wikipedia)

    Cast:

    Anne Page, Mistress Page's daughter: Elizabeth Barr
    Bardolph, sharper attending on Falstaff: Alan
    Doctor Caius, a French physician: Marty Kris
    Falstaff: Mark F. Smith
    Fenton, a gentleman: Peter Bishop
    First Servant: Ted Garvin
    Ford, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: Timothy Ferguson
    Host of the Garter Inn: TriciaG
    Hostess Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap: Amy Gramour
    Mistress Ford: Elizabeth Klett
    Mistress Page: Arielle Lipshaw
    Nym, sharper attending on Falstaff: Skythrock
    Page, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: Alan
    Pistol: Peter Bishop
    Robert Shallow, country Justice: Algy Pug
    Robin, page to Falstaff: Beth Thomas
    Rugby, servant to Doctor Caius: Dale Burgess
    Second Servant: Skythrock
    Servant: TriciaG
    Simple, servant to Slender: Sarah Holtz
    Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson: Matthew Reece
    Slender, cousin to Shallow: David Lawrence
    William Page, a boy, son to Page: Elizabeth Klett
    Narrator: Denny Sayers

    Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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