SOURCE: "Castrating (W)itches: Impotence and Magic in The Merry Wives of Windsor," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, Autumn, 1987, pp. 320-26.
In the following essay, Cotton demonstrates how the women in The Merry Wives of Windsor use deceit to empower their husbands and to render unworthy suitors such as Falstaff impotent.
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