10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare's Globe: rare London revival is a treat
Fouracres is funny to his bones and knows how to work the Globe's groundling audience, though weirdly he throws away one of my favourite one-liners in the entire Complete Works. Falstaff, having been carried away in a laundry basket under the nose of Mistress Ford's jealous husband and dumped in the Thames, declines the offer of an egg in a warming cup of fortified wine with the words 'I'll no pullet sperm in my brewage'. Oh well.
