# Mistress Page — The Merry Wives of Windsor character guide

> Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mistress Page, Page, Mistress Page Heaven

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i-scene-i

## Snapshot

The unflappable half of Windsor's avenging duo, who matches Falstaff's letter with her own and turns insult into a shared comic campaign.

## Who they are

Mistress Page is the wife whose husband trusts her completely, a contrast that sharpens every scene she shares with the jealous Ford household. She treats Falstaff's advances less as a threat than as an entertainment, coolly noting she'd rather find twenty lascivious turtles than one chaste man. Her steadiness and strategic mind make her the anchor of the wives' conspiracy and a quiet counterweight to the play's anxious husbands.

## In the story

### [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-i-scene-i)

Present at the gathering, welcoming guests.

### [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-i)

Receives a love letter from Falstaff and conspires with Mistress Ford to humiliate him.

### [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-ii)

Also sends her commendations to Falstaff via Quickly, hinting at a future meeting.

### [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-ii)

Meets Robin and Ford on the street; goes to visit Mistress Ford.

### [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-iii)

Arrives breathless to warn Mistress Ford and helps devise the basket trick.

### [Scene IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-iv)

Privately opposes marrying Anne to Slender and hints at favoring Fenton.

### [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-i)

Arranges for her son William to be examined by Sir Hugh Evans and then leaves to visit Mistress Ford.

### [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-ii)

Warns Mistress Ford of Ford's approach, helps disguise Falstaff, and later suggests telling their husbands about the trick.

### [Scene IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-iv)

Proposes the Herne the Hunter disguise and fairy plot, while privately favoring Doctor Caius as Nan's husband.

### [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-v-scene-iii)

Arranges for Doctor Caius to take her daughter Anne in green to the deanery, and coordinates the fairy plot at Herne's Oak.

### [Scene V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_merry_wives_of_windsor_se/chapters/act-v-scene-v)

Reveals she turned Anne into green to marry Doctor Caius; later accepts Fenton as her son-in-law.

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