The Merry Wives of Windsor | Host of the Garter Inn
The host acts as enabler and judge of a great deal of the activity around him. He also creates a good deal of purposeful disorder; Page suggests that the host is something less than a fine, upstanding member of the community when he says, ''Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes. There is either liquor in his pate, or money in his purse, when he looks so merrily" (II.i.89-91). Like the Fords and Pages, the host represents the middle classes, who earn their money rather than inheriting lands and titles. But his role is to play host to the gentry, specifically Fenton and Falstaff,...
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