Nov 18, 2008

The Merry Wives of Windsor | Modern Connections

The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on how a community establishes and preserves its own standards. Outsiders like Falstaff, Fenton, Caius, and Evans cause a wide range of threats to Windsor's inhabitants. Evans and Caius threaten the conventions of language use that other characters rely on: the Welsh Evans has an accent, and Caius frequently misunderstands English expressions and imports French words into his speech. Even native speakers within the community often lack language skills— Mistress Quickly mistakes Latin for vulgar English, and Slender frequently mistakes the prefixes...