' - The Times Educational Supplement From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's enduringly popular comedy THIS EDITION INCLUDES: • An illuminating introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor by award-winning ...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597: Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that went into his Henry IV plays.
... I would turn her loose to him ; and what hee gets more of her, then sharpe words, let it lye on my head. ... L 178 - 205 it . though F once more sets perfectly valid verse (10/7 syllables), as if Ford were more moved by the moment ...
“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.” —The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more ...
These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers. “Come, we have a hot venison ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the...
At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Sir John Falstaff, knowing that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page control the money in their respective households, decides to seduce them, but they learn of his scheme and resolve to...
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597.
... to go further and claim that their virtue is in some sense the point.5 Shakespeare's cuckoldry plays repeatedly stage the lack of foundation on which men build their accusations. In order to make that point, wives must be virtuous.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597.
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