SOURCE: “Pastoral and Parody in The Merry Wives of Windsor,” in English Studies in Canada, Vol. XI, No. 1, March, 1985, pp. 12-25.
In the following essay, Slights examines the community of The Merry Wives of Windsor and contends that the humiliation of Falstaff “forces him to bow to social pressures and prepares him to understand and accept his place within the society.”
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