SOURCE: "The Meaning of Falstaff's Allusion to the Jack-a-Lent in The Merry Wives of Windsor " in Studies in Philology, Vol. 88, No. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 46-68.
In the essay below, Jonassen identifies Falstaff as a "Jack-a-Lent," or scapegoat, who satirizes the powerful forces in the community even while he is himself being humiliated, thus restoring balance to the world of the play in the end.
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