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| Character | Mistress Ford | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Complaining, Frustrated | |
| Type | Serio-comic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Description | Mistress Ford is angered by Falstaff's letter | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene I | |
Summary
In the first scene of the play we are introduced to Justice Shallow, Master Slender and Sir Hugh Evans. First they talk about Sir John Falstaff, a scoundrel and a thief, who has wronged them, then about Slender's hopes to marry Anne Page.
They confront Falstaff at Master Page's house and he admits his wrongdoings. Falstaff later tells his men that he plans to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford so that he can have access to their husband's money. He sends a love letter to Mistress Page and to Mistress Ford. First Mistress Page reads her letter and is angered by it. Then Mistress Ford enters the scene and realizes that Falstaff has sent the same letter to both of them. Just like Mistress Page, Mistress Ford is upset by it and swears revenge.
They confront Falstaff at Master Page's house and he admits his wrongdoings. Falstaff later tells his men that he plans to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford so that he can have access to their husband's money. He sends a love letter to Mistress Page and to Mistress Ford. First Mistress Page reads her letter and is angered by it. Then Mistress Ford enters the scene and realizes that Falstaff has sent the same letter to both of them. Just like Mistress Page, Mistress Ford is upset by it and swears revenge.
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| MISTRESS FORD We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised women's modesty; and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged on him? I think the best way were to entertain him with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like? |
