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"This new edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising the liveliness of the play in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this citizen comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he also examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds within the play. The revision of this edition includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of Merry Wives, and also considers how recent productions bear upon the critical and theatrical account Crane gives of the play"--Provided by publisher.
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Drama, Sir Falstaff, John (Fictitious character), Married women, Promptbooks, English drama, Man-woman relationships, Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, Stage history, Marriage, Korean, Dictionaries, English language, Concordances, German, Mujeres casadas, Falstaff, John, Sir (Personaje literario), Comedias, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), English literature, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Drama, collections, Plays, Criticism and interpretation, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, merry wives of windsor, Comedies, Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Drama, Married women -- Drama, Windsor (Berkshire, England) -- Drama, English drama (Comedy), Comédie anglaise, Merry wives of Windsor (Shakespeare, William), Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, concordancesPeople
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The merry wives of Windsor
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Les joyeuses commères de Windsor
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When Falstaff meets Mistresses Page and Ford, two married women said to control their own financial affairs, he writes identical love letters to each of them, never imagining that they will compare notes. When they do, they vow to trick Falstaff.
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