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| Character | Falstaff | |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Descriptive, Lamenting, Complaining, Frustrated, Insecure, Afraid | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Description | Falstaff tells Mr Brookes what happened at Mistress Ford's house | |
| Location | ACT III, Scene 5 | |
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 he 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.
Falstaff meets Mistress Ford the next day but is forced to hide in the dirty laundry basket when her husband comes home. Mr Ford doesn't find him but later when he meets Falstaff again under the disguise of Mr Brookes, Falstaff tells him the story. Falstaff complains that, being a fat man, he was very uncomfortable and hot in the basket and was later thrown in the freezing river Thames.
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 he 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.
Falstaff meets Mistress Ford the next day but is forced to hide in the dirty laundry basket when her husband comes home. Mr Ford doesn't find him but later when he meets Falstaff again under the disguise of Mr Brookes, Falstaff tells him the story. Falstaff complains that, being a fat man, he was very uncomfortable and hot in the basket and was later thrown in the freezing river Thames.
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| FALSTAFF Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good. Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met the jealous knave their master in the door, who asked them once or twice what they had in their basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs of three several deaths; first, an intolerable fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook. |
