Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives” Shines Bright - Rogue River Press

Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives” Shines Bright - Rogue River Press

Promotional poster of The Merry Wives of Windsor from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Image courtesy of OSF. With all the grand Hollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s most famous works- Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet- it’s almost comical that The Merry Wives of Windsor has never quite made it to the big screen. But perhaps that’s precisely where it doesn’t belong. Instead, it finds its perfect home on the open-air stage of the Allen Elizabet…