SOURCE: "The Play: Suitably Shallow but Neither Simple nor Slender," in Shakespeare's English Comedy: The Merry Wives of Windsor in Context, University of Nebraska Press, 1979, pp. 61-83.
In the excerpt below, Roberts contends that Falstaff s lust and adulterous intentions disrupt the social order, and maintains that his punishment and ultimate humiliation effectively quell the sexual hostility in the play.
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