Theatre and Plays Assignment: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Theatre 383)

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THEATRE AND PLAYS
Plays are artistic and bring out the brilliance of both the playwright. The element of bringing to the stage an idea that has been expressed in the mind and in writing is exquisite. It speaks to the elemental ability to visualize and bring to light ideas of the mind and appeal to the audience. It is crucial that there is a strong bond between what is written in the scripts and what comes to the stage as a play. The directors have to make sure that they capture the essence of the playwright at all times, while making sure that the audience are taken in by the expressions of these ideas. Adopting a play into film changes the platform altogether and increases the complexity of the elemental ideas that the play brings out. The commercial and artistic elements of the two factions have to be brought to a merging point. This paper addresses some of the most fundamental films in comedy adopted from their plays and how they bring out the concept of farce. The films in review include; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Don’t Dress For Dinner, The Producers and Noises Off. Farce relates to the comical elements that are intended to make the audience laugh and it often applies the use of nonverbal and physical humor, with application of aspects such as slapstick and horseplay. This means that the plot of the play is more important than dialogue with the intellectual wit that is discernible from the plays.
In the film The Merry Wives of Windsor, it is one of the main plays that was written by Shakespeare and was first published in the year 1602. This is a piece that largely borders on comedy than it does on farce. It is evidence that, the piece is rich with elements of clever dialogue that could also be considered as witty, light humor, elements of disguise and drama that can be considered as hilarious. However, there are other plays that were done by Shakespeare that could be considered to be more focused on farce that this one. Plays such as the Midsummer Night’s Dream and As you Like It, are more of farce than they are comedy. The Merry Wives of Windsor, is more ordered and tends to amuse the audience from an enl...