The fat knight Falstaff woos two respectable wives for their husbands' money, and the wives conspire to humiliate him.
Books that mention The Merry Wives of Windsor (5)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “and will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! --SHAKESPEARE, _The Merry Wives of Windsor_.”
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: “If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death." --Merry Wives of Windsor.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “the gross virgin who inspired The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Waverley by Walter Scott: “who often resembled, in his quaint humour, mine Host of the Garter in the Merry Wives of Windsor; or Blague of the George in the Merry Devil of Edmonton.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “They are mentioned in the first scene of the "Merry Wives of Windsor," where the justice, is in a rage with Falstaff for having "beaten his men,”