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  • A Monologue from the play "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare
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CharacterFord
GenderMale
Age Range(s)Adult (36-50)
Type of monologue / Character isAngry, Lamenting, Frustrated, Insecure, Afraid
TypeDramatic
PeriodRenaissance
GenreComedy
DescriptionFord curses his wife for cheating on him
LocationACT II, Scene 2

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 asks his men, Nim and Pistol, to deliver his love letters to Mistress Ford and Mistress Page but they refuse since they consider themselves honest men. Falstaff finds somebody else to deliver the letters and Nim and Pistol decide to tell Ford's and Page's husbands about Falstaff's plan.

Mistress Page and Mistress Ford receive the letters and are angered by them. They plan revenge. They will play along with Falstaff to humiliate him. In the meanwhile Nim and Pistol meet with Page and Ford (their husbands) and reveal Falstaff's plot.

Mistress Quickly, a messenger, goes to Falstaff with a message from Mistress Ford. She will expect him the following day for a visit. Then Mr Ford, under the disguise of Mister Brooke, enters and tells Falstaff that he has been in love with Mistress Ford for a long time but she has always rejected his advances saying that she doesn't want to cheat on her husband. He argues if Falstaff seduces her then she will lose her honor and won't refuse his advances anymore. Falstaff tells him about his plans to meet her the next morning and later Ford, thinking that his wife actually wants to cheat on him, curses her.

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Excerpt
FORD
What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the
hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man
have thought this? See the hell of having a false
woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not
only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are
devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath
not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,
then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will
break their hearts but they will effect. God be
praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;
better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!

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