SOURCE: "Falstaff in Windsor Forest: Villain or Victim?" in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Winter, 1975, pp. 8-15.
In the essay below, Roberts examines the last scene of The Merry Wives of Windsor where Falstaff is disguised as Herne the Hunter, and concludes from this scene that the fat knight is meant to be a scapegoat whose pathetic ridiculousness serves to unite the various characters of the play.
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