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    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare, William; Craik, T. W.;

    Series: The Oxford Shakespeare;

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    • Edition number and title :The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • Publisher Clarendon Press
    • Date of Publication 1 February 1990

    • ISBN 9780198129295
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages252 pages
    • Size 224x143x19 mm
    • Weight 428 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 5 halftones, 2 line illustrations
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    Short description:

    The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597. T. W. Craik discusses the play's probable occasion, its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history, and its original quality as drama.

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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. Falstaff is here, with Pistol, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow, in a spirited and warm-hearted `citizen comedy'. Boisterous action is combined with situational irony and rich characterization.

    In his introduction T. W. Craik discusses the play's probable occasion (the Garter Feast of 1597 at court), its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history (with particular reference to the widely diverging 1623 Folio and 1602 Quarto), and its original quality as drama. He assesses various interpretations of the play, topical, critical, and theatrical. In the commentary he pays particular attention to expounding the literal sense (he proposes some new readings) and evoking the stage business.

    `T.W. Craik's edition of The Merry Wives is excellent ... can be recommended as one of the most scholarly, helpful, and authoritative texts so far to appear in the Oxford series.'
    The Review of English Studies

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    Table of Contents:

    List of illustrations; Introduction: Shakespeare's Garter Play: The occasion and the date of The Merry Wives of Windsor; Shakespeare's English Comedy: The substance and the dramatic structure of the play; Interpretations, critical and theatrical, of the play; The quarto and folio texts; Editorial procedures; Abbreviations and references; THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR; Appendix A: The Textual Crux at 1.1.20-1; Appendix B: Evan's Song in Act 3, Scene 1; Appendix C: Falstaff's Disguise as Herne the Hunter; Appendix D: Alterations to Lineation of the Folio

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