The Merry Wives of Windsor: Quick Facts

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Falstaff dispatches his billets-doux in The Merry Wives of Windsor, illustration by Hugh Thomson, 1910.

Peg Woffington as Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, engraving by Johan Faber after a painting by E. Haytley

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