Mistress Page: Confidence Without Hesitation
First appears: Act 2, Scene 1
Mistress Page receives Falstaff's letter, is not flattered, finds it funny, and immediately calls Mistress Ford. Her certainty is bracing. She does not hesitate, does not worry about her reputation, and does not take Falstaff seriously for a moment.
She also has a subplot: she wants her daughter Anne to marry Doctor Caius, a French physician. Her husband wants Anne to marry Slender. Anne herself wants to marry Fenton. The subplot resolves (Fenton wins) and Mistress Page loses with good humour.
She is the play's emotional engine: decisive, cheerful, entirely in command of every situation she enters.
Key Scenes
Famous Quotes
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of.”
Mistress Page — Act 3, Scene 2
Themes
Other Characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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