SOURCE: "Falstaff s Horns: Masculine Inadequacy and Feminine Mirth in The Merry Wives of Windsor," in Studies in Philology, Vol. LXXXII, No. 2, Spring, 1985, pp. 184-99.
In the following essay, Parten asserts that Falstaff is not punished for his lust or sexual desire, but for threatening the approved concept of male dominance over women.
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