<bgsound><br> src="<a href="http://angel2shine.lbbhost.com/efg/englishgarden.mid">http://angel2shine.lbbhost.com/efg/englishgarden.mid</a>"> Below are some photos of Shakespeare in Delaware Park's 2008 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. It is directed by Steve Vaughan and stars Susan Drozd, Beth Donahoe and Norm Sham. All photos by Lawrence Rowswell. SLENDER All his successors gone before him hath done't; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may give the dozen white luces in their coat. JUSTICE SHALLOW It is an old Coat. MISTRESS FORD ANNE PAGE and SLENDER"I pray you, sir, walk in."" I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes, and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hotmeat since." SIR JOHN FALSTAFF "No quips now, Pistol. Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's wife; I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation; I can construe the action of her familiar style; and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be Englished rightly, is 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'" PISTOL AND NYM PETER SIMPLE AND DOCTOR CAIUS MISTRESS QUICKLY "You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more than I do with her, I thank heaven." MISTRESS PAGE What! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Let me see. 'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor.You are not young, no more am I; go to, then, there's sympathy: you are merry, so am I; ha! ha! then there's more sympathy; you love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice, that I love thee. I will not say, pity me: 'tis not a soldier-like phrase; but I say, Love me. By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might, For thee to fight,JOHN FALSTAFF.' What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked, wicked world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant. What an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked, with the devil's name! out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me? Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What should I say to him? I was then frugal of my mirth; Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. How shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings... Did you ever hear the like? MISTRESS FORD Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and Ford differs. To thy great comfort in this mystery of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy letter; but let thine inherit first, for, I protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for different names, sure, more, and these are of the second edition. He will print them, out of doubt; for he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two: I had rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. Well,I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. FORD (disguised as BROOKS) AND FALSTAFF "There is a gentlewoman in this town, her husband's name is Ford." "Well, sir." "I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her; fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight of her; not only bought many presents to give her, but have given largely to many to know what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my means, meed, I am sure, I have received none, unless experience be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught me to say this, Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues." THE HOST OF THE GARTER INN and DOCTOR CAIUS "To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? Is he dead, my Francisco? Ha, bully! What says my Aesculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? Ha! is he dead, bully stale? Is he dead?" "By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de world; he is not show his face." "Thou art a Castalion King Urinal! Hector of Greece, my boy" THE MERRY WIVES "Mistress Page, remember you your cue." "I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me." "Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays." ANNE PAGE AND FENTON Gentle Master Fenton, Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir. If opportunity and humblest suit Cannot attain it, why then,--hark you hither. MISTRESS QUICKLY A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all three, for so I have promised, and I'll be as good as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it! FORD inspects the laundry FORD asks his wife's forgiveness Pardon me, wife. Henceforth, do what thou wilt; I rather will suspect the sun with cold Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith. Could this possibly be PASTOR HUGH EVENS? FALSTAFF in disguise Attack of the fairies! FALSTAFF overwhelmed Happy Endings You do amaze her: hear the truth of it. You would have married her most shamefully, Where there was no proportion held in love. The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us. The offence is holy that she hath committed, And this deceit loses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or unduteous title, Since therein she doth evitate and shun A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. CAST: Falstaff Norman Sham Master Ford Paul Todaro Master Page Doug Zschiegner Shallow Chris Standart Slender Steve Petersen Sir Hugh Evans Ross Hewitt Dr. Caius Roger Keicher Bardolf Matthew Lachiusa Host Jeff Coyle Simple Will Vaughan Pistol Pete D'Angelo Nim Ralph Donatelli III Fenton Zach Ward Mistress Ford Susan Drozd Mistress Page Beth Donahue Mistress Quickly Chrissy McDonald Anne Page Anne Roaldi Ensemble Jenna Clark Tracy Snyder LINKS: William Shakespeare bio Shakespeare Book of Lists SHAKESPEARE IN DELAWARE PARK LENNIE'S SHAKESPEARE PAINTINGS Thomas W. Loughlin - Photo Gallery The Merry Wives of Windsor at eNotes Merry Wives of Windsor Quiz (at Spark Notes) ShoPix (photos of non-Shakespeare plays) View photos of ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL View photos of HAMLET View photos of KING LEAR View photos of OTHELLO View photos of ROMEO & JULIET View photos of THE TEMPEST Index of PAGES Special Thanks to: Chrysler PT Cruiser
Below are some photos of Shakespeare in Delaware Park's 2008 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. It is directed by Steve Vaughan and stars Susan Drozd, Beth Donahoe and Norm Sham. All photos by Lawrence Rowswell.
"I pray you, sir, walk in."" I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes, and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hotmeat since."
"No quips now, Pistol. Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's wife; I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation; I can construe the action of her familiar style; and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be Englished rightly, is 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'"
"You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more than I do with her, I thank heaven."
What! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Let me see. 'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor.You are not young, no more am I; go to, then, there's sympathy: you are merry, so am I; ha! ha! then there's more sympathy; you love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice, that I love thee. I will not say, pity me: 'tis not a soldier-like phrase; but I say, Love me. By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might, For thee to fight,JOHN FALSTAFF.' What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked, wicked world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant. What an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked, with the devil's name! out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me? Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What should I say to him? I was then frugal of my mirth; Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. How shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings... Did you ever hear the like?
Love me. By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might, For thee to fight,JOHN FALSTAFF.'
Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and Ford differs. To thy great comfort in this mystery of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy letter; but let thine inherit first, for, I protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for different names, sure, more, and these are of the second edition. He will print them, out of doubt; for he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two: I had rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. Well,I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
"There is a gentlewoman in this town, her husband's name is Ford." "Well, sir." "I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her; fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight of her; not only bought many presents to give her, but have given largely to many to know what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my means, meed, I am sure, I have received none, unless experience be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught me to say this, Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
"To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? Is he dead, my Francisco? Ha, bully! What says my Aesculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? Ha! is he dead, bully stale? Is he dead?" "By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de world; he is not show his face." "Thou art a Castalion King Urinal! Hector of Greece, my boy"
"Mistress Page, remember you your cue." "I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me." "Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays."
Gentle Master Fenton, Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir. If opportunity and humblest suit Cannot attain it, why then,--hark you hither.
A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all three, for so I have promised, and I'll be as good as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!
Pardon me, wife. Henceforth, do what thou wilt; I rather will suspect the sun with cold Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith.
You do amaze her: hear the truth of it. You would have married her most shamefully, Where there was no proportion held in love. The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us. The offence is holy that she hath committed, And this deceit loses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or unduteous title, Since therein she doth evitate and shun A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.
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