The Merry Wives of Windsor (1918 film)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Directed by	William Wauer
Written by	William Shakespeare (play)
Produced by	Jakob Beck
Production; company	Jakob Beck-Film
Distributed by	Jakob Beck-Film
Release date	February 1918;
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent ; German intertitles

The Merry Wives of Windsor (German:Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by William Wauer.^[1] It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.^[2]^[3] As noted in the introduction of a recent edition of the play, the film "was , paradoxically enough, a silent film musical".^[4]

Cast

In alphabetical order

Gretl Basch as Frau Fluth
Jacques Bilk as Herr Fluth
Robert Blass as Falstaff
Edwin Heyer as Cajus
Luise Mark-Lüders as Frau Reich
Ludwig Rex as Herr Reich
Elisabeth Schott as Anna
Harry Steier as Junker Spärlich
Karl Tannert as Fenton

References

^ Wedel, Michael (2019-05-20). Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture: On the Poetics and Culture of Popular German Cinema, 1910-1930. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-061355-1.
^ Sammons p.87
^ Sammons, Eddie (2004). Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4446-9.
^ Shakespeare, William (2009-08-26). Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42454-9.

Bibliography

Eddie Sammons. Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Scarecrow Press, 2004.

External links

The Merry Wives of Windsor at IMDb

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[1] Wedel, Michael (2019-05-20). Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture: On the Poetics and Culture of Popular German Cinema, 1910-1930. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-061355-1.

[2] Sammons p.87

[3] Sammons, Eddie (2004). Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4446-9.

[4] Shakespeare, William (2009-08-26). Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42454-9.

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