"These audio recordings are a companion to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare published by Penguin Putnam Inc. The productions adhere to the edition edited by Alfred Harbage that was available at the time they were recorded. Subsequently, a new edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, editied by Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, was published in late 2002." - insert.

Insert contains a brief summary of each scene.

Director, Clive Brill ; composer, Dominique Le Gendre ; producers, Bill Shepherd and Tom Treadwell.

Dinsdale Landen (Sir John Falstaff), Sylvestra Le Touzel (Mistress Ford), Penny Downie (Mistress Page), Nicholas Woodeson (Ford), Philip Jackson (Page), Clive Swift (Justice Shallow), John Dallimore (Slender), Susan Brown (Mistress Quickly), Kenneth Jay (Doctor Caius), David Cardy (Host), Camilla Power (Anne Page), Scott Handy (Fenton), Alan David (Evans), Chook Sibtain (Pistol), Anthony Jackson (Bardolph), Rupert Mason (Nym), Andrew Fallaize (Simple), Pascoe Sabido (William), Peter England (Robin), James Reynard (Rugby).

"The dissolute Sir John Falstaff plans to seduce Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, two 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' thereby gaining access to their husbands' wealth. The two women have the old rogue's measure, however, and Falstaff's plots lead only to his humiliation. But the Merry Wives themselves fall victim to plotting as their plans to prevent Mistress Page's daughter Anne from marrying the young man she loves are frustrated in their turn." --container.