THE STORY OF ACT III
THE DOUBLE DUPERY
Contrast the feelings of Falstaffe before and after the Buckbasket episode?
In which scene is Ford the worst duped?
Give an account of Dame Quickly's relations to the intrigues, and show how her multitudinous offices as go-between interfere with each other so that she is "slacke" in one of her errands. What is the effect of her slackness on the contradictions in the time of the action. (See Duration of the Action, in "First Folio Edition"). Are they only seeming contradictions? The Sources of the Ford intrigue and what Shakespeare has done with them.
Anne and her father and mother as characterized in this act, with relation to the suitors.
QUERIES FOR DISCUSSION
Is Anne the only character one can thoroughly sympathize with?
Are the situations such as owe their fun largely to coincidence, like those in the "Comedie of Errors," or to a teeming variousness in the human naturalness of all the characters?