Two Rogues of Classic Drama 
.... Hal in both parts of William Shakespeare's histories of Henry IV, proved so popular that the playwright revived him for the comedy The
Merry Wives of Windsor ....
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Shakespeare's Faustaff & Wycherley's Horner
.... Henry IV. He proved so popular that the playwright revived him for a comedy of his own, The
Merry Wives of Windsor. The Falstaff ....
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Two Operas by Verdi
.... that the title refers therefore; in Falstaff, the aging knight is the central character, to whom all effects and drama relate, the
Merry Wives being largely ....
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The Tempest
.... Shakespeare uses the term "books" here, as he had done in
Merry Wives of Windsor (4.1.15), to mean not only Prospero's physical collection of books, but also ....
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Poems by Ogden Nash
.... His approach is humorous, but the fact is that "
Merry Christmas" becomes an exercise .... It next proceeds to the observation that
wives just won't let husbands get ....
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Women in European Society
.... Harris (261ff) cites widows' and
wives' overt and covert exploitation of "informal .... Wiesner,
Merry E. "Women's Defense of Their Public Role." Women in the ....
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Rape of the Lock & Absalom and Achitophel
.... but Dryden is able to achieve the task of aggrandizing the
merry monarch out of .... Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To
wives and slaves ....
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Richard the Lion Hearted Richard Plantagenet, who reigned from ...
.... arriving just in time to save the day for Robin Hood and his
Merry Men, or .... Henry was not simply the tyrant who chopped off his
wives' heads, and Elizabeth was ....
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Antifeminist Tradition
.... Throughout their lives--as daughters,
wives, and widows--aristocratic women exercised the .... Wiesner,
Merry E. "Women's Defense of Their Public Role." Women in ....
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Popularity of Richard the Lion Hearted Richard Plantagenet, who ...
.... arriving just in time to save the day for Robin Hood and his
Merry Men, or .... Henry was not simply the tyrant who chopped off his
wives' heads, and Elizabeth was ....
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