The Merry Wives of Windsor - BBC Shakespeare Collection [1982] [DVD]

Description

Among the honest folk of Windsor, Sir John Falstaff stands out as a rogue, a chancer and an oaf. More concerned with his lack of money, the aging overweight Falstaff hatches a plan to court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When the two wives get together they devise their own plan to teach the knight a lesson Shakespeare's boisterous comedy of love and money was supposedly written because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love. One of the great Shakespearian characters, Falstaff is played with gusto by Richard Griffiths, who is mercilessly taunted by Judy Davis and Prunella Scales as the wives.