Merry Wives of Windsor (2015)

William Shakespeares comic encore for one of his best-loved characters, the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V, is a lively and ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter. In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. This relentlessly inventive comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is edited by G.R. Hibbard with an introduction by Catherine Richardson. The edition also includes introductions to Shakespeares life and Elizabethan theatre and the play, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay on performance options on stage and screen, and a commentary.