The merry wives of Windsor
a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
by William Shakespeare
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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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Les joyeuses commères de Windsor
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The merry wives of Windsor
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The merry wives of Windsor: a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
1778, Printed for J. Wenman, no. 144, Fleet-Street, and sold by all other booksellers in town and country
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Edition Notes
Part of a series issued with numbers of The theatrical magazine, and also separately. Possibly issued with The oracle by Susanna Maria Cibber, and The judgement of Paris by William Congreve.--ESTC.
Signatures: Áþ(-A4) B́þ Ćþ(-C4)
Engraved frontispiece lettered: Published by J. Wenman, 1 Sepr. 1778.
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.
Printed in double columns.
Not in Barton Collection catalog.
ESTC T39291
Cataloged 2015 jmoschella
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern red morocco and papier tourniquet. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page and the bookplate of the Billings Fund is present on the front pastedown. In this copy, the engraved frontispiece is wanting.
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