Hell hath no fury like Windsor housewives scorned, and Sir John Falstaff is about to learn why.

What happens when Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the fat, charming scoundrel Sir John Falstaff, tries to seduce two clever married women to get at their husbands' money? Total humiliation. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff sends identical love letters to Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, assuming these respectable Windsor housewives will fall for his dubious charms. Instead, they compare notes, realize they're being played, and launch an epic revenge scheme involving laundry baskets, buck-washing, disguises, and a midnight forest prank involving fake fairies and pinching. Meanwhile, Mistress Ford's jealous husband goes undercover to catch his faithful wife in the act of an affair that isn't happening, while their daughter Anne navigates three suitors her parents can't agree on. It's Shakespeare's only play set in contemporary England, a raucous middle-class comedy where women outsmart everyone, and the legendary Falstaff gets dunked in the Thames, beaten while dressed as an old woman, and crowned with antlers. Pure theatrical revenge served with style.