(Knock on door. Perdita enters, greeting and handshaking)

ANN: (Aside to wives as Perdita crosses stage and takes chair at end) You remember the Winters’ Tale they told of her? (Wives nod energetically)

ANN: And here comes Desdemona, wife of Othello.

Enter Desdemona. (sits by Perdita)

PAGE: (aside) How could she ever have married that horrid black man?

Enter Cordelia.

FORD: I have never met her, she’s daughter to King Lear, a cranky father and hard to please, but she’s a lovely religious woman.

Enter Katherine.

PAGE: Why that’s Petrucio’s wife, the one they called the Shrew, she hath an untamed twinkle in her eye.

Enter Jessica.