His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

Falstaff also appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Mistress Page ( Julie Hughett ) and Falstaff ( John Rousseau ) in The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre at the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel, CA, in 1999

* The Merry Wives of Windsor

It is mostly based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ( 1849 ) by Carl Otto Nicolai, based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Cobhams appear to have intervened while Shakespeare was in the process of writing either The Merry Wives of Windsor or the second part of Henry IV.

Shakespeare may have included a sly retaliation against the complaint in his play The Merry Wives of Windsor ( published after the Henry IV series ).

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Francis Philip Stephanoff, circa 1840

Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, whose libretto was also by Boito, was based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Victor Hugo's subsequent translation.

Sullivan completed his Festival Te Deum ( 1872 ); another oratorio, The Light of the World ( 1873 ); his only song cycle, The Window ; or, The Song of the Wrens ( 1871 ); incidental music to The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1874 ); and more songs, parlour ballads, and hymns, including " Onward, Christian Soldiers " ( 1872 ).

The Latin term renes is related to the English word " reins ", a synonym for the kidneys in Shakespearean English ( e. g. Merry Wives of Windsor 3. 5 ), which was also the time the King James Version was translated.

Oxfordians see Oxford's marriage to Anne Cecil, Lord Burghley's daughter, paralleled in such plays as Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter's Tale.

From the late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute ; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ) and Measure for Measure ( 1623 ).

* April 23 – Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.

Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV.

* Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor

* The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602, 1619

He provided suites of incidental music for a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Gaiety in 1874 and Henry VIII at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in 1877.

* The Merry Wives of Windsor, comedy by William Shakespeare

One prototype for this version of the town drunk is supplied by Shakespeare's Falstaff, who appears in both parts of Henry IV and in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

**( One-Reel ) The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture-Johnny Green

Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam make plans to set things right once more.

When Frodo Baggins, Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to take the Ring to Rivendell, Fredegar stayed behind in Frodo's house at Crickhollow in an attempt to keep up appearances and delay news of their departure, as well as give any message to Gandalf should he turn up.

* 2006 – The box set compilation A Piano: The Collection includes the " Star Trunk Funkin ' Mix " edit as well as the " Merry Widow Live Version ," but again, not the album version.

* Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a BBC children's television series partially set in Worksop

In Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean., while playing with Queen's Royal Guards figurines and the nativity set, he hums " The British Grenadiers ", which was quoted in the theme to Blackadder Goes Forth.

* A number of feature-length films are linked to Rarotonga: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, depicting a Japanese POW camp for British prisoners in the island of Java in the year 1942, was filmed here, The Other Side of Heaven, which is set in Niuatoputapu, Tonga, but was filmed in part on Rarotonga, and Johnny Lingo which was set here.

" Hurrah for Merry England ", was set twice to music and printed in The Musical Times, in 1861 and 1880.

In the late Victorian era, the Tory Young England set perhaps best reflected the vision of " Merry England " on the political stage.

On June 17, 1964, Kesey and 13 Merry Pranksters boarded " Further " at Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, and set off eastward.

On November 16, 2004, Aiken released a holiday album titled Merry Christmas with Love, which set a new record for fastest-selling holiday album in the Soundscan era ( since 1991 ).

Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor is set in Windsor and contains many references to parts of the town and the surrounding countryside.

His poem " The Merry, Merry May " was set to music in a popular song by composer Christabel Baxendale.

* Arrigo Boito, composing a libretto for Verdi's opera Falstaff by improvising upon materials in Merry Wives and Henry IV, built the moonlit last act set in Windsor Great Park around a prank revenge played upon the amorous Falstaff by masqueraders disguised as spirits and the spectral " Black Huntsman ", in whom Herne the Hunter is recognizable.

He was also involved in preparing the magazine's theatrical parties, including the 1925 production of A Merry Death, by Nikolai Evreinov ; Janco was the set and costume designer, and Eliad the director.

After Seymour's teenage daughter Merry in 1968 set off a bomb in protest against American involvement in the Vietnam War, killing a bystander, and subsequently went into hiding, Seymour Levov remained traumatized for the rest of his life.

The Fortune Teller ( 1898 ) is set in Hungary, The Merry Widow ( 1907 ) takes place in France, and Naughty Marietta ( 1910 ) features New Orleans.

His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur.

The former chemistry student set up a private LSD lab in the mid-Sixties in San Francisco and supplied the LSD consumed at the famous Merry Pranksters parties held by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, and other major events such as the Gathering of the tribes in San Francisco in January 1967.

In the summer of 1964, Kesey's Merry Pranksters customised a bus and set out on a tour to propagate LSD use.

At the beginning of her career, Smith appeared in a wide range of stage productions, including the role of Mistress Quickly in an Off Broadway production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor with the Riverside Shakespeare Company, produced by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival, set in New Orleans in post-Civil War America.

Chute's next two books, Letourneau's Used Auto Parts ( 1988 ) and Merry Men ( 1994 ), are also set in the town of Egypt, Maine.