The Merry Wives of Windsor: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 5 original MP3 tracks, 2:28:21 running time and a link to listen.
The Merry Wives of Windsor, credited to William Shakespeare, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast: Anne Page, Mistress Page's daughter: Elizabeth Barr Bardolph, sharper attending on Falstaff: Alan Doctor Caius, a French physician: Marty Kris Falstaff: Mark F. Smith Fenton, a gentleman: Peter Bishop First Servant: Ted Garvin Ford, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: Timothy Ferguson Host of the Garter Inn: TriciaG Hostess Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap: Amy Gramour Mistress Ford: Elizabeth Klett Mistress Page: Arielle Lipshaw Nym, sharper attending on Falstaff: Skythrock Page, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: Alan Pistol: Peter Bishop Robert Shallow, country Justice: Algy Pug Robin, page to Falstaff: Beth Thomas Rugby, servant to Doctor Caius: Dale Burgess Second Servant: Skythrock Servant: TriciaG Simple, servant to Slender: Sarah Holtz Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson: Matthew Reece Slender, cousin to Shallow: David Lawrence William Page, a boy, son to Page: Elizabeth Klett Narrator: Denny Sayers Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Author credits: William Shakespeare
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 5
- Listed recording duration: 2:28:21
Catalogue topics
- shakespeare
- drama
- merry wives of windsor
- play
- comedy
- falstaff
Track guide
- 1 - Act 1 — 30:51
- 2 - Act 2 — 33:50
- 3 - Act 3 — 36:32
- 4 - Act 4 — 28:22
- 5 - Act 5 — 18:49
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