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Hoist a cup o' sack to the Connecticut Stratfordians! With their new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which had its official opening yesterday afternoon, co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have put the American Shakespeare Festival back into high gear.
The choice of this play marked an act of courage. Few people are familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir...
Many critics have been quick to look down their pedantic noses at Shakespeare's Merry Wives. They decry its lack of psychologic or philosophic depth; they bemoan its coarse language; they complain that almost none of it is in verse. Indeed the play is prose, but not prosaic. And the...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: alternating Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn.): June 12-September 13, "Romeo and Juliet"; July 2-September 11, "Merry Wives of Windsor"; July 29-September 12, "All's Well That Ends Well."