• Sir John Falstaff
• Bardolph, Pistol, Nym – followers of Falstaff.
• Robin – page to Falstaff.
• Messrs. Frank Ford & George (Thomas) Page – two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.

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The play is nominally set in the early 15th century, during the same period as the Henry IV plays featuring Falstaff, but there is only one brief reference

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Some elements of The Merry Wives of Windsor may have been adapted from Il Pecorone, a collection of stories by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino;

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Considering the Falstaff of The Merry Wives of Windsor in contrast to the Falstaff portrayed in the two Henry IV plays, Mark Van Dorenstates: "Only the husk of Falstaff's voice is

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Merry Wives was one of the first Shakespearean plays to be performed once the theatres re-opened in 1660 after the Interregnum. Samuel Pepys saw the King's Companyact

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Plays
• The Comical Gallant, a revision and adaptation by John Dennis (1702)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor was adapted and translated into Swahili for

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The play's date of composition is unknown; it was registered for publication in 1602, but was probably several years old by that date. In the Fairy pageant in Act 5 Scene 5 (lines 54–75), Mistress Quickly, as the Queen of the Fairies, gives a long speech giving an

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