The Merry Wives of Windsor | Fenton
A gentleman who has kept company with the Prince Hal of the Henry plays, Fenton is the man Anne Page actually marries. He makes few appearances in the play. The love affair between Fenton and Anne Page takes place at the margins of the slapstick of jealousy, greed, and revenge that forms the main action of the play. Fenton admits to a certain level of involvement in the general climate of concern with money, and to "riots past'' and "wild societies" (III.iv.8) of his own. Like Anne's other suitors, Caius and Slender, he says he began wooing Anne because of her father's income. But...
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