As luck would have it Why Should I Care

Why Should I Care?

Watching The Merry Wives of Windsor is like channel surfing between back-to-back episodes of Punk'd! and Cheaters. In other words, when people get duped in this play, they often end up looking like chumps in front of a very large audience of people.

When a lusty knight tries to seduce two honest (so to speak) housewives, they stage a series of elaborate pranks designed to teach him a lesson in front of the entire community. The tricks are also designed to punish a pathologically jealous husband, who thinks his wife is messing around behind his back. The whole time Falstaff thinks he's the one doing the messing around. But soon the messer becomes the messee. And boy is it messy.