the merry wives of windsor / bbc (1982) // dvd

/THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR/ (1982)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 170 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 28th December 1982
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A COMEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

“O, what a world of vile ill-favour’d faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.”
Among the honest folk of Windsor, Sir John Falstaff stands out as a rogue, a chancer and an oaf. More concerned with his lack of money, the ageing, overweight Falstaff hatches a plan to court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When the two wives get together they devise their own plan to teach the knight a lesson . . .
Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy of love and money was supposedly written because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love. One of the great Shakespearian characters, Falstaff, played here with great gusto by Richard Griffiths, is mercilessly taunted by Judy Davis and Prunella Scales as the wives.

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Enter Justice Shallow, Master Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans . . . .

SHALLOW : ”Sir Hugh, persuade me not.
I will make a Star Chamber matter of it.
If he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs,
he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire . . . ”
Richard Griffiths
Prunella Scales Judy Davis
with
Alan Bennett Elizabeth Spriggs
and Ben Kingsley

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In Credits Order
Alan Bennett ... Justice Shallow
Richard O'Callaghan ... Slender
Tenniel Evans ... Sir Hugh Evans
Bryan Marshall ... George Page
Richard Griffiths ... Sir John Falstaff
Gordon Gostelow ... Bardolph
Nigel Terry ... Pistol
Michael Robbins ... Nym
Miranda Foster ... Anne Page
Judy Davis ... Mistress Ford
Prunella Scales ... Mistress Page
Ron Cook ... Peter Simple
Michael Graham Cox ... Host of the Garter Inn
Lee Whitlock ... Robin
Elizabeth Spriggs ... Mistress Quickly
John Joyce ... John Rugby
Michael Bryant ... Doctor Caius
Simon Chandler ... Fenton
Ben Kingsley ... Frank Ford
Ralph Brown ... John
Peter Gordon ... Robert
Crispin Mair ... William Page
Harvey Brown ... Fairy
Kerry Cavalli ... Fairy
Adam Cooper ... Fairy
Helen Grey ... Fairy
Simon Kemp ... Fairy
Wayne Phelan ... Fairy
Tony Young ... Fairy

Director: David Hugh Jones
Produced: Shaun Sutton
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
Hys Most Excellent
Comedie
The
Merry Wives
Of Windsor

ABOUT THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
A truly domestic play, confronting middle-class dilemmas. The Merry Wives Of Windsor is set dancing by a wicked sense of fun when the 'merry wives' receive Falstaff’s, romantic overtures and resolve to trick him with all their female weaponry. Brilliant comedy emerges from this complex Elizabethan farce as we, the only possessors of all the facts, watch an impressive line-up of artists bring strong and witty performances to the colourful, eccentric personalities in one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies . . . A legend dating from 1702 claims that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor in fourteen days and by command of Queen Elizabeth; in 1597 she was said to have wished particularly to see Falstaff in love. Whether or not this is true, passage towards the end of the play alluding directly to the ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, Britain’s highest order of chivalry, encourages the belief that the play has a direct connection with a specific occasion.
In 1597 George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain and patron of Shakespeare’s company was installed at Windsor as a Knight of the Garter . . . First printed in a corrupt version in 1602 with a better text appearing in the 1623 Folio.

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